NCJ Number
179026
Editor(s)
Dean M. Busby
Date Published
1996
Length
368 pages
Annotation
This book provides therapists and other helping professionals with a comprehensive overview of treatment approaches for two types of family-related violence: violence that occurs between family members and violence that is inflicted on a family member from someone who is not legally a family member.
Abstract
In covering a variety of treatment issues and approaches, the book focuses on helping clients develop healthy relationships that will endure beyond the termination of therapy. The broad discussion ranges from treatment approaches for families in which parents commit violence against their children to treatment for sexual assault of family members by outsiders. In each case the authors explain how to guide survivors of violence through the therapeutic steps necessary to re-establish a sense of balance and stability. Other topics addressed include what therapists should know about mandated reporting; the physical and sexual abuse of women in marriage; symptoms observed in survivors of physical and sexual abuse; abuse of the elderly by adult children; treating women who have been physically or sexually abused by partners before marriage; and therapy for adult survivors of incest. The chapter authors, all specialists in their area, have taken an ecological approach to explaining the many facets of violence. Themes developed throughout the book include making violence the primary focus of therapy, empowering survivors of violence, and focusing on the client's resiliency and strength. Treatment approaches that can be used by all helping professionals are described. Chapter tables and references and author and subject indexes