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Gender-inclusive treatment of intimate partner abuse : a comprehensive approach / John Hamel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hamel, John.
- Series:
- Springer series on family violence.
- Springer series on family violence
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intimate partner abuse.
- Family psychotherapy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Springer Pub., c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This breakthrough handbook for mental health professionals and educators offers practical, hands-on information for conducting assessments and providing treatments that take the entire family system into account. Rich with research that shows women are abusive within relationships at rates comparable to men, the book eschews the field's reliance on traditional domestic violence theory and treatment, which favors violence interventions for men and victim services for women and ignores the dynamics of the majority of violent relationships. Thus, the author identifies and measures protocols that
- Contents:
- Assessments
- Domestic violence today
- Issues and problems in DV assessment
- Conducting DV assessments
- Special considerations in DV assessment
- Treatment
- General features
- The treatment plan
- Group work
- Family interventions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-294) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8261-9736-1
- OCLC:
- 319249281
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