Using a feminist lens, this chapter focuses on psychosocial services for mitigating domestic violence (DV) faced by women in India. It traces the evolution of such services, beginning with the campaigns by the autonomous women’s movement in India in the 1970s, and subsequently by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to highlight DV, with the primary focus in the early years being on demanding the state for legal reform, and for establishment of services for those affected by DV. The first section of this chapter describes the evolution of approaches of several such organisations engaged in feminist counselling to respond to DV, although the term ‘feminist counselling’ was not specifically used then to describe the nature of support they provided to the survivors. The second section presents a conceptualisation of DV as a public health issue and elaborates on the development of a feminist counselling model by CEHAT, a Mumbai-based NGO, with which the authors have a long-standing association. This section also offers evidence related to the impact of feminist counselling based on perspectives of women survivors accessing the services. The chapter concludes by presenting a recent initiative led by CEHAT in collaboration with different NGOs to conceptualise outcome indicators for understanding successful and effective outcomes of feminist counselling.

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Feminist Psychosocial Intervention Approaches to Respond to Domestic Violence Against Women: Evolution and Emerging Evidence from India

  • Sangeeta Rege,
  • Padma Bhate-Deosthali

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Using a feminist lens, this chapter focuses on psychosocial services for mitigating domestic violence (DV) faced by women in India. It traces the evolution of such services, beginning with the campaigns by the autonomous women’s movement in India in the 1970s, and subsequently by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to highlight DV, with the primary focus in the early years being on demanding the state for legal reform, and for establishment of services for those affected by DV. The first section of this chapter describes the evolution of approaches of several such organisations engaged in feminist counselling to respond to DV, although the term ‘feminist counselling’ was not specifically used then to describe the nature of support they provided to the survivors. The second section presents a conceptualisation of DV as a public health issue and elaborates on the development of a feminist counselling model by CEHAT, a Mumbai-based NGO, with which the authors have a long-standing association. This section also offers evidence related to the impact of feminist counselling based on perspectives of women survivors accessing the services. The chapter concludes by presenting a recent initiative led by CEHAT in collaboration with different NGOs to conceptualise outcome indicators for understanding successful and effective outcomes of feminist counselling.