Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention Advance Access originally published online on January 29, 2009
Brief Treatment and Crisis Intervention 2008 8(4):381-389; doi:10.1093/brief-treatment/mhn025
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Power and Control as a Framework for Practice—The Case of Intimate Partner Violence Work in Taiwan
From the Department of Social Work, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan (Julie Liu) and the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, Sandra Rotman Chair, University of Toronto. E-mail: cheryl.regehr{at}utoronto.ca
Contact author: Chu-Li Julie Liu, Associate Professor, Tunghai University, Department of Social Work, 181 Taichung-Kang Road. Section 3, Taichung, Taiwan 330. E-mail: chuli{at}thu.edu.tw.
This qualitative study investigated the views of Taiwanese domestic violence workers regarding the applicability of Western feminist models of intervention in their work with battered women. The findings suggested that workers experienced discrepancies between their training in Western domestic violence practices and their work with Taiwanese women whose beliefs and culture were embedded with Confucian ideology. This study also found that workers had developed alternative strategies that they believed to be useful in working with these women. Implications for incorporating cultural knowledge into practice related to intimate partner violence are addressed.
KEY WORDS: intimate partner violence, social workers, Taiwan, confucian culture, qualitative research