Leanne M. Nunn (Lea) has over 25 years of experience as a psychologist in the clinical, management, and training sectors. She completed her PhD in sociology at the University of Tasmania, aimed at reducing the rate of abuse against women through the identification of the earliest warning signs of intimate partner abuse. Lea has her own lived expertise of family and intimate partner abuse and has worked extensively with victim-survivors of intimate partner or childhood abuse throughout her career, both individually and in groups, across private practice, hospital, and community settings. Her research findings may generate important enhancements to the prevention of violence against women, whilst also providing tools that assist practitioners to empower women to identify abuse early in their relationships.
Despite sustained global attention, policy development, and research investment, the prevalence of intimate partner abuse (IPA) worldwide has not diminished. Ending Intimate Partner Abuse advances the field of IPA prevention by presenting a theoretically grounded and empirically derived model of the earliest warning signs.
Integrating psychological and sociological perspectives, this book offers an innovative framework for conceptualising the onset and hidden nature of abuse in intimate partner relationships while providing readers with clarity on the interconnected components critical to understanding and preventing abuse. Emphasising the voices of those with lived expertise, this book illuminates the masks that hide the earliest warning signs and equips practitioners with the knowledge required to minimise the impact of, and exposure to, abuse for the women they work with.
Ending Intimate Partner Abuse: Blending Psychological and Sociological Solutions is valuable to researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in the fields of psychology, sociology, and criminology, particularly those working in gender-based violence.
1. Living with Intimate Partner Abuse. 2. Understanding the Nature of Intimate Partner Abuse. 3. Investigating Intimate Partner Abuse. 4. The Traces Project. 5. The Model of the Earliest Warning Signs and the Tremor that Foreshadows Intimate Partner Abuse. 6. The Domains of Earliest Warning Signs: The Fabric of the Relationship. 7. The Domains of Earliest Warning Signs: Tactics of the Person who Uses Abuse. 8. The Domains of Earliest Warning Signs: Victim Survivor Factors. 9. The Context of Gender Socialisation. 10. Psychological Grooming is Camouflage for the Earliest Warning Signs. 11. Physiological Programming Disguises the Earliest Warning Signs. 12. Working With People Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Abuse. 13. Ending Intimate Partner Abuse. Appendix 1: IPA Grooming Framework Handout. Appendix 2: IPA Assessment Tool.
