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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dutton, Mary Ann, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abused women--Counseling of.

Abused women.

Abused women--United States--Psychology--Case studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer Pub. Co., c1992.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

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

10. Issues for the Professional Working with AbuseAppendix A: Abusive Behavior Observation Checklist (ABOC); Appendix B: Questionnaires for Assessing Battered Woman's Cognitions about Violence; Appendix C: Response to Violence Inventory: Strategies to Escape, Avoid, and Survive Abuse; Appendix D: Normative Data from a Sample of Battered Women on Measures of Psychological Effects of Trauma; Appendix E: Psychological Evaluation Report; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-195) and index.

ISBN:

0-8261-7131-1

1-281-76566-X

9786611765668

OCLC:

476263394