Power and Control as a Framework for Practice—The Case of Intimate Partner Violence Work in Taiwan

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.