James Clark
890610686
HUSR 310
Berelowitz
I. Introduction
I Am Not Your Victim by Beth Sipe and Evelyn J. Hall is an autobiography, written from the perspective of Beth Sipe who gives powerful insight on the life of a victim of domestic violence. Beth Sipe was in a 16-year marriage with Sam Sipe, throughout her entire marriage she was constantly exposed to physical, sexual, emotional, and financial abuse. Beth’s children were also victim’s of this abuse, two of which she had with Sam and the oldest she had from a previous marriage. Beth and her children had many obstacles during her 16-year cycle of domestic violence, the delivery of case management would have been beneficial to her and children and probably would have removed her from the …show more content…
She would lie to the doctors in regards to her extreme and minor injuries and even about her children’s injuries. Even Matt had lied to the doctors about an injury he had received from Sam, telling them that he fell through a window when he was cut so badly that an artery was visible (Sipe & Hall, 2014, p.83). Sam had even slapped Daniel in front of hospital staff during a checkup for Daniel and he called Beth “a vicious little bitch” at which point no hospital personnel said or word or did anything to intervene. (Sipe & Hall, 2014, p.56). A combination of fear due to threats from Sam and lack of action from the staff cause her to not seek intervention from the hospitals. Family Beth’s family both on Sam’s side and her own had been aware of the abusive nature of Sam in some way, however she never received any true support from them. Sam would be abusive around his family and even around to a degree around Beth’s family. When Beth called her family and talked about how he treated her they said “you married him, your kids need a father, so live with him” (Sipe & Hall, p.32)
III. Implications for Case Management – How each of the processes of case management would benefit Beth and her
890610686
HUSR 310
Berelowitz
I. Introduction
I Am Not Your Victim by Beth Sipe and Evelyn J. Hall is an autobiography, written from the perspective of Beth Sipe who gives powerful insight on the life of a victim of domestic violence. Beth Sipe was in a 16-year marriage with Sam Sipe, throughout her entire marriage she was constantly exposed to physical, sexual, emotional, and financial abuse. Beth’s children were also victim’s of this abuse, two of which she had with Sam and the oldest she had from a previous marriage. Beth and her children had many obstacles during her 16-year cycle of domestic violence, the delivery of case management would have been beneficial to her and children and probably would have removed her from the …show more content…
She would lie to the doctors in regards to her extreme and minor injuries and even about her children’s injuries. Even Matt had lied to the doctors about an injury he had received from Sam, telling them that he fell through a window when he was cut so badly that an artery was visible (Sipe & Hall, 2014, p.83). Sam had even slapped Daniel in front of hospital staff during a checkup for Daniel and he called Beth “a vicious little bitch” at which point no hospital personnel said or word or did anything to intervene. (Sipe & Hall, 2014, p.56). A combination of fear due to threats from Sam and lack of action from the staff cause her to not seek intervention from the hospitals. Family Beth’s family both on Sam’s side and her own had been aware of the abusive nature of Sam in some way, however she never received any true support from them. Sam would be abusive around his family and even around to a degree around Beth’s family. When Beth called her family and talked about how he treated her they said “you married him, your kids need a father, so live with him” (Sipe & Hall, p.32)
III. Implications for Case Management – How each of the processes of case management would benefit Beth and her