Stop Signs: Recognizing, Avoiding, and Escaping Abusive Relationships [Paperback]

Since 1992, Lynn Fairweather has dedicated her professional life to intimate partner violence response and prevention. She has received multiple awards and commendations for her work in criminal justice, university, non-profit, and psychiatric settings. Currently, she operates Presage Consulting and Training, the only firm in America that focuses solely on reduction of intimate partner homicide through threat assessment and management. She has provided hundreds of specialized trainings andconsultations for law enforcement, advocates, medical personnel, and case managers on assessing and managing high lethality domestic violence cases.<br><br>Fairweather's threat assessment background features training under programs such as Homeland Security&#8217;s Federal Law Enforcement Training Center and Gavin de Becker&#8217;s Advanced Academy. She is on the board of directors for The Association of Threat Assessment Professionals and has written several victim resource guides, one of which is used by the Oregon Department of Human Services as their official domestic violence guide. She has also written curriculum for and facilitated abusesurvivor support groups and batterer intervention programs.<br><br>Fairweather holds a bachelor&#8217;s degree in social science and a master&#8217;s degree in social work, and has served in shelters, law enforcement units, and courtrooms, giving her a great deal of insight into the tactics of batterers and the unique challenges that their victims face. As a survivor of a high lethality abusive relationship herself, she approaches each case with profound empathy and hope. It is this familiarity that allows her to speak to women from a place of understanding, without condescension or indifference, regarding situations not many people can truly comprehend.<BR>