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UNINA9910480931803321 |
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Autore |
Whalen Mollie |
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Titolo |
Counseling to end violence against women [[electronic resource] ] : a subversive model / / Mollie Whalen |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif., : SAGE, c1996 |
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ISBN |
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1-322-42005-X |
1-4833-2758-2 |
1-4522-4824-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (185 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Abused women - Counseling of - United States |
Feminist therapy - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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