- Paperback: 198 pages
- Publisher: Cormorant Books Inc. (May 3 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1896951902
- ISBN-13: 978-1896951904
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #753,638 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Book Description
This collection of nine essays by outstanding academics, scholars, and practitioners in the field of intimate partner abuse is now available for the general public, as well as for front-line workers who work with battered women, for government and non-governmental organization policymakers and lobbyists, for healthcare workers and mental health professionals, for family practitioners and internists. It is an excellent resource for psychotherapists, group therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, and pastoral counsellors.
Subjects covered include, among others: the formation and application of policy; the impact of policy on victims of violence and anti-violence workers; developing good policies about intimate partner violence; myths about women abused by intimate partners; the nature of the abuse throughout the relationship; the impact of abuse; the genesis of the abuse; social exclusion and bondedness to cultural community; understanding domestic violence; defining domestic violence; risk and the abused woman; and harm reduction and the abused woman's safety.
About the Author
Mary Rucklos Hampton holds an Ed.D. in Counselling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard University and an Ed.M. in Counselling Psychology from Boston University. She is a registered clinical psychologist in the province of Saskatchewan and professor of psychology at Luther College at the University of Regina.
Nikki Gerrard is a community psychologist and the Coordinator of the Rural Quality of Life and Adult Counselling programs, Adult Community Mental Health Services, Saskatoon Health Region, where she is the Chief Psychologist for the Adult Services in Mental Health. She is also an adjunct professor in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, College of Medice, University of Saskatchewan. She designed and implemented a farm stress program over 11 years ago and has worked extensively in rural mental health.
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