Working with Domestic Violence: Contexts and Frameworks for Practice (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781138939806)

Deborah Walsh, PhD is a social work practitioner who is a specialist in domestic and family violence work. She has 20 years' experience working with women victim/survivors of domestic and family violence, together with nine years' experience running intervention programs for domestically violent men. Deborah is currently lecturing at the University of Queensland in the Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work. She developed one of Australia's first risk assessment frameworks for use in family violence work and conducted a landmark Australian study on the level, extent, and nature of violence against women during pregnancy.