Battering and Family Therapy
Subtitle: A Feminist Perspective
Contributors: Marsali Hansen (Editor); Michele Harway (Editor)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: March 23, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780803943216
Subjects: Counselling; Family welfare; Psychotherapy; Violence in society; Women's studies; Psychology; Feminist therapy; Sociology; Wife abuse; Psychotherapy - Couples & Family; Interpersonal Relations; Mental Illness; Psychology & Psychiatry / Interpersonal Relations; Psychology & Psychiatry / Mental Illness; Psychology-Interpersonal Relations; Psychology-Psychotherapy - Couples & Family; Family violence; Family psychotherapy
First sentence: "You are more likely to be physically assaulted, beaten, and killed in your own home at the hands of a loved one than anyplace else, or by anyone else in our society" (Gelles &amp; Straus, 1989, p. 18).