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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Conceptual Framework and Assessment | |
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| Women's Response to Battering: A Psychological Model | |
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| Women's Response to Battering: The Model | |
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| Case Illustrations | |
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| Understanding the Nature and Pattern of Abusive Behavior | |
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| Defining Abuse | |
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| Strategies of Assessment | |
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| Impact of Assessment Procedures | |
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| Strategies to Escape, Avoid, and Survive Abuse | |
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| Escape and Survival Strategies | |
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| Effectiveness of Strategies | |
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| Self-Defense as Survival Response | |
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| Strategies of Assessment | |
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| Psychological Effects of Abuse | |
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| Psychology of Traumatic Response | |
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| Distinctions Between Domestic Violence and Other Traumas | |
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| Classification of Traumatic Effects | |
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| Diagnostic Issues | |
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| Strategies of Assessment | |
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| Mediators of the Battered Woman's Response to Abuse | |
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| The Differential Impact of Abuse | |
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| Mediating Factors | |
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| Strategies of Assessment | |
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| Intervention | |
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| The Framework for Intervention with Victims and Survivors of Domestic Violence | |
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| General Philosophy of Treatment | |
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| Goals of Intervention | |
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| Useful Techniques for Intervention | |
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| Modality of Intervention | |
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| Ethical and Legal Considerations | |
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| Protective Interventions | |
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| Recurrent Abuse/Victimization | |
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| Suicide Risk | |
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| Homicide Risk | |
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| Acute and Severe Stress Reaction | |
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| Making Choices | |
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| Components of Choice Making | |
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| Intervention Strategies | |
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| A Final Note on Choice Making | |
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| Posttraumatic Therapy: Healing the Psychological Effects of Battering | |
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| The Nature of Healing | |
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| Compounded Trauma: When Battering Is Not the Only Trauma | |
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| Posttraumatic Therapy: Strategies for Intervention | |
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| Adjunctive Therapies | |
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| Issues for the Professional Working with Abuse | |
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| Vicarious Traumatization | |
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| Risk to the Therapist | |
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| Attitudes and Values of the Professional | |
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| Victimization History of the Professional | |
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| Therapist's Self-Care | |
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| Appendix A: Abusive Behavior Observation Checklist (ABOC) | |
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| Appendix B: Questionnaires for Assessing Battered Woman's Cognitions about Violence | |
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| Appendix C: Response to Violence Inventory: Strategies to Escape, Avoid, and Survive Abuse | |
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| Appendix D: Normative Data from a Sample of Battered Women on Measures of Psychological Effects of Trauma | |
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| Appendix E: Psychological Evaluation Report | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |