Empowering Survivors of Abuse
Subtitle: Health Care for Battered Women and Their Children (SAGE Series on Violence against Women)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
Published: August 11, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780761911210
Subjects: Counselling; Domestic violence; Family & relationships; Women's studies; Human Services; Prevention; Health Services For Women; Social Science; Community Health Nursing; Psychopathology - Compulsive Behavior; Medical; Psychology; Nursing - Home & Community Care; Health aspects; Abuse; Abuse - General; Psychology & Psychiatry / Interpersonal Relations; Women; Abuse of; Women's Health - General; Abused women; Children
First sentence: The most recently published, national random survey estimates that 4.4 million adult women are abused by a spouse or partner in this country every year (Plichta, 1997).