UID:
almafu_9959227211302883
Format:
1 online resource (xviii, 302 p.) :
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ill.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4833-2609-8
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1-4522-5352-8
Content:
With an emphasis on violence against women and on women's responses to it - such as depression, splitting and eating disturbances - this volume furthers the radicalization of feminist therapy. It serves as a comprehensive introduction for trainees and as an ongoing resource for social service workers and therapists. Providing detailed and grounded guidance, the author examines feminist approaches to working with women and discusses issues often omitted or pathologized in general feminist counselling texts, including prostitutes battered by pimps and self-mutilation. She explores s
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 - The Radical Feminist Foundations; Chapter 2 - Psychiatry; Chapter 3 - Basics and Beginnings; Chapter 4 - General Empowerment Work; Chapter 5 - Difference: Working With . . .; Chapter 6 - Problematic Territory; Chapter 7 - Working With Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse; Chapter 8 - Extreme Abuse by Male Partner; Chapter 9 - Working With Women Subjected To. . .; Chapter 10 - Self-Mutilation; Chapter 11 - Troubled Eating; Chapter 12 - Drinking Problems; Chapter 13 - Working With Psychiatric Survivors
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Chapter 14 - Clients Who Are Considering Ending Their LivesAppendix: Example of a Client Handout; References; Index; About the Author
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-322-42014-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8039-4788-7
Language:
English
