Beschreibung:
This volume makes a signal contribution to understanding and treating couples' abuse. The editors and contributors expand the models of abusive relationships to include the special concerns of gay and lesbian couples, mutually violent partners, abusive women, and others. Based on a special issue of the respected journal Violence and Victims, the book shatters myths surrounding domestic violence and sheds new light on a complex social problem. This volume will be a resource for counselors, therapists, and social workers concerned with domestic violence, as well as for students and educators in the field.
This volume makes a signal contribution to understanding and treating couples' abuse. The editors and contributors expand the models of abusive relationships to include the special concerns of gay and lesbian couples, mutually violent partners, abusive women, and others. Based on a special issue of the respected journalViolence and Victims, the book shatters myths surrounding domestic violence and sheds new light on a complex social problem. This volume will be a resource for counselors, therapists, and social workers concerned with domestic violence, as well as for students and educators in the field.
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Contributors
Introduction: Expanding Paradigms for Understanding and Intervening into Partner ViolenceClaire M. Renzetti and L. Kevin Hamberger
- Gay and Bisexual Male Domestic Violence Victimization: Challenges to Feminist Theory and Responses to Violence, Patrick Letellier
- Are Bi-Directionally Violent Couples Mutually Victimized? A Gender-Sensitive Comparison, Dina Vivian and Jennifer Langhinrichsen-Rohling
- Counseling Heterosexual Women Arrested for Domestic Violence: Implications for Theory and Practice, L. Kevin Hamberger and Theresa Potente
- Lesbian Battering: The Relationship Between Personality and the Perpetration of Violence, Vallerie E. Coleman
- Head-Injured Males: A Population at Risk for Relationship Aggression? William J. Warnken, Alan Rosenbaum, Kenneth E. Fletcher, Steven K. Hoge, and Steven A. Adelman
- Patriarchy and Wife Assault: The Ecological Fallacy, Donald G. Dutton
- Psychopharmacological Treatment of Aggressive Behavior: Implications for Domestically Violent Men, Roland D. Maiuro and David H. Avery
Commentaries
- Expanding the Boundaries: Toward a More Inclusive and Integrated Study of Intimate Violence, Susan L. Miller
- On Dancing With a Bear: Reflections on Some of the Current Debates Among Domestic Violence Theorists, Claire M. Renzetti
Index
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