Into the Outer Darkness

About the Book

This book will be useful as a training manual for: • Seminars and workshops on Domestic Violence • Undergraduate and graduate student training/education for psychology, social work and other students in the allied health professions • The training of police officers, firefighters, paramedics and other first responders • The training of such physicians, nurses and other health professionals who work in emergency rooms, outpatient clinics, community mental health centers and other such places. • The training of teachers and other educators in the recognition, prevention and appropriate intervention of individuals who may be victims of sexual molestation and domestic violence • Sensitivity and skills training for pastors, chaplains and other clergy • Staffs and perhaps select clients of domestic violence shelters and treatment programs • Individuals who are in recovery from domestic violence/molestation and abuse • At-risk high school students (for prevention) • Training/education for prison inmates/perpetrators and victims of domestic violence • Training of military personnel • Training of staffs in mental health centers who are engaged in treatment of domestic violence, sexual molestation and abuse with victims and perpetrators • Parent education/prevention, especially parents of teens (of males and females) • Education/prevention for survivors of domestic violence/abuse and sexual molestation along with their spouses/relevant family members and friends and colleagues • Education for all parties who are interested and mature enough to handle this subject matter

About the Author

Dr. Bond-Cox was born in Brownsville Tennessee, the older of two daughters. Her parents were local educators who stressed hard work, close knit family, Christian values, and education. Bev grew to love learning and became a top honor student throughout her years throughout elementary grades, Roman Catholic girl’s boarding high school, two universities and more recent seminary degree. Having achieved her educational aspirations to become a Ph.D. licensed clinical psychologist engaged in college teaching and private psychological practice as well as ordained Christian Minister and Spiritual Director, Bev turned her attention to her first love since childhood---writing. She began dusting off old works and creating new ones. This current book is a combination of the old and the new. This book represents a ten-plus plunge into the icy dark and cold waters of domestic violence with another. It was a painful yet important journey. The journey informs everything that she has ever done from police psychological coordinator, to psychologist in a child development center, to Director of Psychology in a state facility for individuals with mental retardation to school psychologists in public schools and a correctional facility and more.