Description
| Product ID: | 9780789014689 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | A Therapist's Guide to Growing Free |
| Subtitle: | A Manual for Survivors of Domestic Violence |
| Authors: | Author: Michael Hertica, Wendy Susan Deaton |
| Page Count: | 100 |
| Subjects: | Sociology and anthropology, Sociology & anthropology |
| Description: | Combining psychological insight with practical safety information, this book helps therapists guide their clients into understanding—and ending—the vicious cycle of wooing, tension, violence, and remorse. A Therapist''s Guide to Growing Free provides a comprehensive outline of the issues, tasks, and goals involved in the treatment of victims and survivors. The companion volume, Growing Free: A Manual for Survivors of Domestic Violence, is an ideal guidebook for your clients in dangerous relationships. Help victims and survivors break the cycle of abuse! Trying to get victims and survivors of domestic abuse to recognize their own victimization can be a frustrating experience. They often become so frightened, isolated, and self-doubting that they make excuses for the abuser. Combining psychological insight with practical safety information, this book helps therapists guide their clients into understanding--and ending--the vicious cycle of wooing, tension, violence, and remorse. A Therapist''s Guide to Growing Free provides a comprehensive outline of the issues, tasks, and goals involved in the treatment of victims and survivors. Its chapter-by-chapter breakdown of how violent relationships function and how to end them safely can help you guide a traumatized woman through her therapeutic journey. The guide''s companion volume, Growing Free: A Manual for Survivors of Domestic Violence is the perfect handout for clients in individual therapy, group therapy, and battered women''s shelters. Reading stories like their own may provide the shock of recognition they need to be able to understand--and eventually to end--the cycle of violence that characterizes all levels of domestic abuse. It outlines a series of steps they can take to ensure their emotional and physical safety. Its stories of women in abusive relationships and discussions of the cycle of abuse are direct and easy to read without ever being condescending. A Therapist''s Guide to Growing Free provides the insight and therapeutic models needed for effective intervention and treatment, including:
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| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-08-08 |
