ABUSE

“…I am going to order two of the bound copies of the book, one for…the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Coalition of North Carolina, and one for me. I do know some family practice residents and this will be an important issue for them. I am sure they get nothing about it elsewhere, nor do pediatric or internal medicine residents. Most of the members of my group are physicians at teaching centers…”

--Ed Farell, M.D.

“Thank you for sharing your book with me. I read the entire thing in two sittings! You bring out some very enlightening experiences that certainly back up your theories.

          Having worked in both a county mental-health clinic and an 800-bed mental health facility, I found your compassion and unique style of therapy refreshing.”

--Pam English, Mental Health Professional

“Having read those sample chapters of [your] book, I would have to recommend the reading of [your] theory to everyone on [our mailing list]. I would agree that child abuse has a major influence on the development of one’s personality…living in an abusive environment tends to [make a child] not able to explore or discover his or her own self.”

--Cindy, Cornell University

“Thank you for this information. I am really excited and have forwarded it on to several other agencies and professionals that I think will be interested.”

--Kay Keller, Department of Children and Families, Florida

“Your materials (testing for child/domestic abuse) are great! …I really hate very much child/domestic abuse because it is also practiced by many tribes in Tanzania.”

--Filemoni Tenu, Muhimbili University of Dar es Salaam College of Health Sciences

“Child and woman abuse is a very common complaint both in my private and public practice as a psychologist. I have found that almost two thirds of the women that I have interviewed present a long history of abuse as the main etiology of their depression…Needless to say, I am very interested in your tests; I will translate and use them in my practice, then I will e-mail the results for you, when I have enough cases.”

--Ricardo Villamizar, Clinical Psychologist, Carlos Andrade Marin General Hospital, Ecuador

“Thanks very much for [your materials]. I belong to a group [performing] maternity/early parenting services. For many years as an independent midwife, I had the opportunity to identify and acknowledge women’s past and current experience of abuse.

          Pregnancy is a ‘raw’ open time when many memories, feelings surface, whether the woman wants them to or not. This is a transitional time. I have personally observed that it is an opportunity to begin/continue a healing process.”

--Jill Demilew, Kings Healthcare Trust, London

“We would be very grateful for a copy of the structured questionnaires…we are very keen to study instruments that may make doing this kind of research with younger children easier and more productive. We do a lot of research with adult women who have experienced domestic violence and again any new instruments that can help are very welcome.

          We are also consulted a lot by researchers/academics in the Third World, particularly as we are the special advisors to the British Council on violence against women. Would you be happy for information about these instruments to be passed on to anyone who consults us?”

--Linda Regan, Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, University of North London

“I am currently working on an AUsAID funded Women’s Health and Family Welfare Project in Lombok, Sumbawa and Flores, Indonesia. We are very interest in using your tests on child abuse and domestic violence…we can translate your tests…they may be very useful for the kind of data we are looking for, particularly regarding the status of women.”

--Harriot Beazley, Ph.D., Women’s Health and Family Welfare Project, Kodya Mataram, Indonesia

“Thanks Dr. Ewart for the information. I have printed off a copy of the attachment…I wanted to share in my August Newsletter Column the availability of your material.”

--Edie Moore, Society for Adolescent Medicine.

“Thanks for sending me the sample chapters of the book and other information. I have found them very interesting and I will certainly pass on the information you have sent me to other interested parties, which I know may find the information useful for their work. Thanks again and well done for this important work.”

--Lorraine Mercieca, Dip.Soc.Stud, Malta, Europe

“It is, indeed, kind of you to make available your inventories for measuring domestic violence against both women and children. I am a Health Social Scientist from India and would be interested in conducting some reliability studies here.”

--Hemant Kulkami, M.D.

“Thank you very much for the attachments. I have frequent contact with both elementary school age children and with unwed mothers, many of whom I suspect were sexually abused as children. I am sure your work will be helpful.”

--Barbara Franks-Morra, R.N., B.F.A., M.F.A.

“Thank you for your reply. My interest stems from searching for information on the way that children whose parents are absent (divorce, bereavement and parental conviction) have problems at school, and that there appears to be a link with these social groups and child abuse. Keep up the good work. It is really needed as the repercussions are life-long for the child/adult”

--Caroline Hancock, Trinity College, Carmarthen, UK