Safety Planning with Battered Women: Complex Lives/Difficult ChoicesDrawing attention to the complexity of helping battered women and their children, this volume introduces a new model of women defined advocacy. The model emphasizes: understanding a battered womans perspective, including her risk analysis and safety plan; building partnerships with battered women; and systems advocacy. It seeks to craft courses of action that will enhance womens safety given their individual realities which might include, for example,