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. &qu...

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Main Author: Dutton, Mary Ann, 1949- (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Springer Pub. Co c1992.
Edition:1st ed
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798503206719
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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 form a part of each
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record.
Physical Description:1 online resource (225 p.)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-195) and index.
ISBN:9780826171313
9781281765666
9786611765668