Empowering and healing the battered woman: a model for assessment and intervention
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Main Author: Dutton, Mary Ann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Springer Pub. Co. c1992
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-195) and index
Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I. Conceptual Framework and Assessment; 1.Women's Response to Battering: A Psychological Model; 2. Understanding the Nature and Pattern of Abusive Behavior; 3. Strategies to Escape, Avoid, and Survive Abuse; 4. Psychological Effects of Abuse; 5. Mediators of the Battered Woman's Response to Abuse; Part II. Intervention; 6. The Framework for Intervention with Victims and Survivors of Domestic Violence; 7. Protective Interventions; 8. Making Choices; 9. Posttraumatic Therapy: Healing the Psychological Effects of Battering
The book spells out in practical, concrete terms what it really means to place the pathology outside the battered woman. The novelty in this approach lies in the implications for practice: battered women are not "sick" - they are in a "sick" situation. " Practical and comprehensive, an excellent guide for clinicians and other interveners . Mary Ann Dutton's book, Empowering and Healing the Battered Woman, integrates psychological theory with detailed information on the real-life dimensions of abused women's posttraumatic responses and the strategies for assessment that
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 202 p.)
ISBN:0826171303
0826171311
9780826171306
9780826171313

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