Counseling to End Violence Against Women: A Subversive Model

by Mollie Whalen

Book Overview

Feminist theory has viewed violence against women as being a result of a male-dominated society; however, traditional counselling approaches to helping battered women have neither addressed this view nor encouraged social change. The author of this challenging volume seeks to bridge this gap by incorporating feminist theory with counselling practice.

Whalen argues that a counsellor working with an abused woman should not aim merely to empower...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803973802
• ISBN13: 9780803973800
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"