1. Psych 209 AMS Approach AMS Context Paradigms Normalization
Social construction
Growing fields
Practice AMS Interviewing

2. What is an AMS approach? Advanced = inclusive
Multi-systemic = person in context
Considers culture
Strengths, empowerment approach
Links people to the structures in which they operate
Asks: how do people adapt to structures?
How do people understand and construct interpretations of their lives within structures?

3. Defining Context Micro level: self within our family
Mezzo Level: neighborhoods, communities, social institutions that surround us
Macro: culture, laws, ideologies, religion/beliefs

4. Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model

5. Defining Family Violence
How is family violence defined?
Who defines it?
Why is it important to examine the influence of claims making on the definition of social problems?
Should family violence be defined broadly or narrowly? Advantages/disadvantages of each?

6. Paradigms of Family Violence
Neglect, Physical, Sexual, Psychological
Why have greater societal resources in family violence been directed toward intervention as compared to prevention?
Do you have any perceptions about family violence that have been challenged by the opening chapter?

7. How is Family Violence Normalized?
¾ parents use physical violence
Half use severe violence
What rights do families have in U.S.?
How is violence hidden?
How is violence justified?

8. The Social Construction of Problems: Child Abuse
Industrialization movement: 1802 houses of refuge
1874 church social worker appealed to Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for abused child
Women’s involvement in health care/soc svc.
1900s criminalization of child abuse
1960s battered child syndrome-mandatory reporting
1974 Child Abuse and Tx Act Funding
20th Century: recognized neglect
1990s: recognized psych. maltreatment

9. Social Construction pf Problems: Domestic Violence
1800 married women considered “civilly dead”
1971 book and women’s shelter in England
1978 NOW and NCADV
Marital rape recognized in the 60s and 70s
Elder abuse recognized in the 60s and 70s
“Date rape” movement of the 80s and 90s
1994, 2000, VAWA - shelters and hotlines
Focus on legal and clinical interventions

10. Growing Fields of Inquiry and Intervention
G/L partner violence
Cross cultural factors
Sibling violence
Partner violence in the military
Prevention

11. AMS Interviewing
What did you learn from conducting multi-systemic interviews?
What was different?
What was hard?
What did you gain?
What do you want to work on?