Empowering and healing the battered woman :: a model for assessment and intervention /

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 comprehe...

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Main Author: Dutton, Mary Ann, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Springer Pub. Co., ©1992.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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 resource (xx, 202 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195) and index.
ISBN:9780826171313
0826171311

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