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The battered woman syndrome /
With its focus on the connection between health and mental health symptoms, this seminal, groundbreaking work continues to forge new directions in the field of domestic violence. Describing a condition that is the basis for the battered woman defense--cited in cases of physically and psychologically...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Springer Publishing Company,
[2017]
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| Edición: | Fourth edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Myths and science of domestic violence
- The battered woman syndrome study overview
- History
- What is the battered woman syndrome?
- Learned helplessness, learned optimism, and battered women
- Descriptions of violence and the cycle of violence
- Interaction of intimate partner violence and other family violence
- Impact of violence in the home on children
- Child abuse and domestic violence
- Sex trafficking of children
- Battered women's attachment styles, sexuality, and interpersonal functioning
- Murder-suicides and self defense
- Cross cultural and cross-national issues in domestic violence
- Intervention strategies
- Risk assessment and lethal potential
- Battered women's health concerns
- Mental health needs of battered women
- Substance abuse and domestic violence
- Trauma-informed psychotherapy
- Survivor therapy empowerment program (STEP)
- Application of psychology to the legal system
- False confessions of battered women
- Family court, child custody, and domestic violence
- Domestic violence courts and batterer's treatment programs
- Battered women in criminal court, jail, and prison
- Index.