Battered Woman Syndrome, Paperback by Walker, Lenore E. A., Brand New, Free P...

Description: Battered Woman Syndrome, Paperback by Walker, Lenore E. A., ISBN 0826170986, ISBN-13 9780826170989, Brand New, Free P&P in the UK This volume reports on research conducted over 40 years on battered woman syndrome. It describes background on the history and definition of domestic violence, learned helplessness and learned optimism, and violence and its cycle; the interaction of intimate partner violence with other family violence, including child abuse; intervention strategies, with discussion of risk assessment, health and mental health issues, substance abuse, trauma-informed psychotherapy, and the survivor therapy empowerment program; and the application of psychology to the legal system, with discussion of family court, child custody, domestic violence courts and batterers' treatment programs, and battered women in criminal court, jail, and prison, with hew findings in this section. This edition has been updated to reflect changes like the Affordable Care Act guidelines on health care and domestic violence and data from the Adverse Childhood Experiences Study, as well as new research on battered women and cross-cultural and cross-national issues and new chapters on other forms of violence against women, psychological effects on children, murder-suicide in domestic violence cases, trauma treatment for victims of intimate partner violence, human trafficking and sexual exploitation of children, and false confessions of battered women. It has a new section on reforming family court and divorce presumptions, and new research on traumatic responses. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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