Helping battered women : new perspectives and remedies

"Provides the most current, empirically-based and realistic overview of policies and intervention methods, combining a rich array of perspectives by professors and scholars in the fields of social work, criminology, and clinical psychology. The book focuses on a full range of policies and programs which include case management service models, 24-hour hotlines and crisis intervention programs, social worker-police collaboration, mandated arrest of batterers, electronic technology, and group/play therapy for the children of battered women, methods which are all effective in breaking the inter-generational cycle of abuse."
""Helping Battered Women" provides an overview of programs and policies for helping battered women. It covers a wide range of possible responses and interventions by police, doctors, social workers, and psychiatrists, and includes chapters on hotlines, women's shelters, support groups, victim advocacy services, emergency and mental health interventions, and legal remedies."@en
"Provides an overview of programs and policies for helping battered women. This book covers a wide range of possible responses and interventions by police, doctors, social workers, and psychiatrists, and includes chapters on women's shelters, support groups, victim advocacy services, emergency and mental health interventions, and legal remedies."@en