Freedom from Violence: Tools for Working with Trauma, Mental Health and Substance Use: Resource Tool Kit

Citation

Parkes T, Welch C, Besla K, Leavitt S, Ziegler M, MacDougall A, Armstrong S, LaCombe B, LeClaire M, Taylor N & Cory J (2007) Freedom from Violence: Tools for Working with Trauma, Mental Health and Substance Use: Resource Tool Kit. Armstrong S (Editor). Ending Violence Association of British Columbia. http://www.endingviolence.org/node/459

Abstract
First paragraph: The aim of this tool kit is to actively engage readers in applying a feminist analysis to women's experiences of mental health, substance use and past and current experiences of violence. The tool kit contains a wide variety of voices that speak to these issues by drawing on a range of sources: the experience of providing services to women, theory, research, feminist activism and scholarship and, naturally, by the writers' own experiences of substance use, mental health problems and violence.

• Parkes_2007_FreedomViolence.pdf