Feminist Response to Attempted Suicide: A Model for Public Health Intervention

This is a research based paper which has taken cognizance of violence and suicide together. Background understanding of domestic violence in relation to ongoing physical, sexual or psychological and economic process in society is well focused in the paper and so is the preservative of feminist approach which is quite innovative. The paper has brought out the gender aspect in terms of understanding domestic violence as a means to humiliate women and force them to conform to gender roles. The research paper illustrates well the magnitude of the problem globally. The paper also presents feminist based counseling methodology and illustrates it with examples from the counseling practice.