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VIOLENCE RISK FACTORS ASSESSMENT AND WOMEN'S MENTAL DISORDERS TREATMENT
THE ASSESSMENT
-To listen to the symptoms as signs of a life course in which it is possible to find the links among disease, dependency and violence
-To pay attention to woman's daily life: workload, family and social context's demand, judgements, self-perception, personal interests, time and spaces for oneself
-To reread daily life as overloading: all is on woman's shoulders and she cannot develop friendship and interests outdoors and out of the job
-To recognize the link between disease and daily life style: from isolation on the job to isolation at home (she is left alone, with too many responsibilities)
-To trace acts of physical and psychological violence in the relationship with the partner as instruments of pressure an push to change woman's way of life
-To identify violence consequences in isolation and in a worse self-perception
-To outline the links between disease and violence as consequences of factors which are not the woman's responsibility: she is the victim and must be relieved of all responsibility
-To know that , in situations of violence which has become chronic, the woman is not ready to see the partner as a negative person, before the knot of the dependency has been undone
THE TREATMENT
-To de-structure and stop the dependency on the partner working towards the overcoming of isolation, the recovery of pre- existing social resources and the input of new social supports
-To identify strategies to lighten workloads and role tasks pressure, which are fertile ground for isolation and dependency
-To promote personal interests and, by these, to test the disagreement with the partner and own assertiveness
-To train adopt behaviour strategies against partner. First rule: don't submit own decisions to partner’s approval
-To develop more realistic self-perception by rediscovering own resources and capabilities, by confirming the m in less judgemental relationships and by testing them in activities out of the family
-To review own life project making plans which "start from oneself", and thinking about the possibility of living without the partner (overcoming the fear of staying alone)
-To recognize the violence she has experienced and the conditions of a collusion between violence and violent man (overload, criticism, isolation and lack of friends and personal interests)
-To free oneself from the perception of relationship as necessary: to regain the capability of deciding what to do in relationship and on the relationship
-To get information on support nets suitable to offer help to come out of violence
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