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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819687703321

Autore

Whalen Mollie

Titolo

Counseling to end violence against women : a subversive model / / Mollie Whalen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Thousand Oaks, Calif., : SAGE, c1996

ISBN

9781322420059

132242005X

9781483327587

1483327582

9781452248240

1452248249

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 166 p.)

Disciplina

362.82920973

Soggetti

Abused women - Counseling of - United States

Feminist therapy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 - Counseling and Social Change; Chapter 2 - Movements for Women's Liberation; Chapter 3 - Debated Issues in Feminism and the Emergence of Feminist Therapy; Chapter 4 - The Radical Potential of the Battered Women's Movement; Chapter 5 - Counseling Practice with Battered Women; Chapter 6 - Case Study: Counseling in Feminist Social Change Programs; Chapter 7 - Counseling to End Woman Battering; Chapter 8 - Carrying It On; Appendix: Women's Movements in the United States; References; Author Index; Subject Index; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

Feminist theory has viewed violence against women as being a result of a male-dominated society; however, traditional counselling approaches to helping battered women have neither addressed this view nor encouraged social change. The author of this challenging volume seeks to bridge this gap by incorporating feminist theory with counselling practice.    Whalen argues that a counsellor working with an abused woman should not aim merely to empower the client to change a situation that is intolerable for that particular woman: the counsellor



should also aim to change the social conditio