Helping battered women : new perspectives and remedies / edited by Albert R. Roberts.
Provides the most current, empirically-based and realistic overview of policies and intervention methods, combining a rich array of perspectives by professors and scholars in the fields of social work, criminology, and clinical psychology. The book focuses on a full range of policies and programs wh...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1996.
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| Summary: | Provides the most current, empirically-based and realistic overview of policies and intervention methods, combining a rich array of perspectives by professors and scholars in the fields of social work, criminology, and clinical psychology. The book focuses on a full range of policies and programs which include case management service models, 24-hour hotlines and crisis intervention programs, social worker-police collaboration, mandated arrest of batterers, electronic technology, and group/play therapy for the children of battered women, methods which are all effective in breaking the inter-generational cycle of abuse. |
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 247 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0195095863 9780195095869 0195095871 9780195095876 |