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NEW – What Is to Be Done About Violence Against Women?
This book maps the problems and possibilities of the policies and practices designed to tackle violence against women in the domestic sphere over the last 40 years. It asks the simple yet critical question: how can governments best ensure women’s safety in the twenty-first century?
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Five Books That Could Save Your Life
Madeline McAleer, Research, Training and Development Director at Haven Horizons and lecturer on the accredited continuous professional Level 6 ‘Reflecting on and Responding to Coercive Control ‘in TUS is interviewed by Irish Examiner Columnist Sarah Harte to discuss five selected domestic abuse and coercive control books.
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NEW – Children of Coercive Control
Children of Coercive Control extends Evan Stark’s path breaking analysis of interpersonal violence to children, showing that coercive control is the most important cause and context of child abuse and child homicide outside a war zone. ISBN:9780197587096
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NEW – The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help
An honest, intellectually rigorous and insightful book for abused women that challenges readers to truly engage in a political discourse that can change lives, communities and nations. ISBN:9781402204012
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NEW – The Gift of Fear
In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the US’s leading expert on violent behaviour, reveals how to identify even the most subtle signs of danger—signs often overlooked by others—before it’s too late. ISBN:9780747538356
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NEW – LGBTQ Intimate Partner Violence: Lessons for Policy, Practice and Research
This is the first book that systematically reviews the literature regarding LGBTQ intimate partner violence, draws key lessons for current practice and policy, and recommends research areas and enhanced methodologies. ISBN:9780520352346
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NEW – Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
Renowned trauma expert Judith L. Herman commits the radical act of listening to survivors. Recounting their stories, she offers an alternative vision of justice as healing for survivors and their communities. ISBN: 9781529395020
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RTE Drivetime Interview – Madeline Mc Aleer and Dr Melinda Gushwa (TUS)
The Irish Times Women’s Podcast: Róisín Ingle speaks to the women behind Clare Haven women’s refuge (2022)
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Live95 Limerick Today Interview – Madeline Mc Aleer and Dr Maura Clancy (TUS)
The Irish Times Women’s Podcast: Róisín Ingle speaks to the women behind Clare Haven women’s refuge (2022)
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Clare Champion – Mary’s work continues at TUS event (2024)
The Clare Champion|Book celebrates Clare’s haven from abuse and coercive control.
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Clare Champion – Clare TD says Cathal Crotty is a product of a ‘broken system’
The Clare Champion|Book celebrates Clare’s haven from abuse and coercive control.
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Impact Symposium
Impact Symposium In June 2024 the Technological University of the Shannon and Haven Horizons hosted a Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control Impact Symposium – “Interagency Training Saves Lives” which examined the impact of the delivery of the accredited continuous professional development training Reflecting on and Responding to Domestic Abuse and Coercive Control. The Symposium was attended by…
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Research & Knowledge Centre
Haven Horizons / TUS Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Abuse Research & Knowledge Centre In 2018 Haven Horizons developed a collaborative partnership and a Memorandum of Understanding with the Technological University of Shannon (TUS) to establish a Research and Knowledge Centre. Key Objectives of the DSGBA Research and Knowledge Centre: Outcomes We educate and inform people…
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Stop Blaming Mothers and Ignoring Fathers
In this transformative book for professionals and survivors, David Mandel challenges the six main myths of mother-blaming and father-ignoring culture and provides simple, practical solutions and strategies to improve interventions. ISBN:781735164533
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Meet Our Members
Meet Our Board of Directors Our voluntary Board of Directors are leading Haven Horizons’ primary prevention work. Meet Our Team Our committed team comprises of individuals with a variety of talents and knowledge. In Memory Of
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Coercive Control in Children’s and Mothers’ Lives
Drawing on interviews, the author, Dr Emma Katz, sheds light on the impacts of coercive control on children, how it is perpetrators who must be held accountable for those impacts, and how resistance by children and mothers occurs. ISBN:9780367615437
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Social Work and Domestic Violence: Developing Critical And Reflective Practice
Domestic violence affects all areas of social work. This book shows how social workers can intervene in everyday practice with victims, their families and perpetrators of domestic abuse. ISBN:9781412919234
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Coercive Control – How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life (Interpersonal Violence)
One of the most important books ever written on domestic violence, Coercive Control breaks through entrenched views of physical abuse that have ultimately failed to protect women. ISBN:9780195384048
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In Control: Dangerous Relationships and How They End in Murder
World-renowned criminologist Jane Monckton Smith’s ground breaking work is revolutionising the understanding of coercive control and domestic homicide among those who respond to it. Monckton Smith shares a glimpse into a world of coercive control. ISBN:9781526613219, 9781526613226
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Invisible Chains: Overcoming Coercive Control in Your Intimate Relationship
Lisa Aronson Fontes draws on both professional expertise and personal experience to help us recognise controlling behaviours of all kinds and understand why this destructive pattern occurs. ISBN:9781462520244
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A Typology of Domestic Violence
Johnson explores the different types of intimate partner violence and whether it can be defined as a “unitary phenomenon” or whether there are multiple forms of domestic violence. This volume begins the work of theorizing forms of domestic violence. ISBN:9781555536947
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See What You Made Me Do
Jess Hill boldly confronts uncomfortable questions about how and why society creates abusers, and shows how we can end this dark cycle of fear and control. It will challenge everything you thought you knew about domestic abuse. ISBN:9781787388260 / 9781787383685
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Stopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education
Stopping Gender-based Violence in Higher Education provides a unique insight into how gender-based violence at universities is impacting students and staff and suggests prevention strategies to deal with this issue. ISBN:9781032172477
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Brutally Honest – The tell-all memoir from the loudest, proudest Spice Girl
Brutally Honest is an expose of the struggles and acute pain that lay behind Spice Girl, Melanie Brown’s glamour and success. The book reveals the horror of her most recent marriage and her 10 year struggle to be free. ISBN:9781787133525, 9781787133556
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Trauma and Recovery : The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Hailed as ground-breaking work, Herman draws on cutting-edge research in domestic violence to show the parallels between private terrors such as rape and public traumas such as terrorism. ISBN:9780465087303, 9781541602953
