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Author Dutton, Mary Ann, 1949-

Title Empowering and healing the battered woman : a model for assessment and intervention / Mary Ann Dutton.

Publication Info. New York : Springer Pub. Co., [1992]
©1992

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 202 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195) and index.
Contents 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.
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.
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Subject Abused women -- Counseling of.
Abused women -- Counseling of.
Abused women.
Abused women -- United States -- Psychology -- Case studies.
United States.
Psychology.
Counseling -- methods.
Spouse Abuse.
Women -- psychology.
Genre/Form Case studies.
Electronic books.
Case studies.
Other Form: Print version: Dutton, Mary Ann, 1949- Empowering and healing the battered woman. New York : Springer Pub. Co., ©1992 0826171303 9780826171306 (DLC) 92007826 (OCoLC)25412014
ISBN 9780826171313 (electronic book)
0826171311 (electronic book)
0826171303
9780826171306