by David J. Decker (1999)
"Stopping the Violence enables practitioners to help their clients end abusive and violent behavior toward women. The treatment process described in this book focuses not only on ending physical violence, but also on addressing and intervening in what causes it."--BOOK JACKET.
Peter Lehmann, Catherine Simmons
This book discusses emerging theories and presents cutting-edge batterer intervention techniques that use positive psychology, such as solution focused therapy, strengths focused cognitive behavioral therapy, narrative therapy, and motivational interviewing.
Julia Buckroyd and Sharon Rother
Based on a five-year research project, Therapeutic Groups for Obese Women introduces an innovative approach to overcoming the growing socio-economic burden of morbidity and mortality resulting from emotionally-driven female obesity. Julia Buckroyd and Sharon Rother (both of the Obesity and Eating Disorders Research Unit at the University of Hertfordshire), offer a complete 36-week programme based on emotional intelligence and the removal of barriers to improvement, along with learning tools for clinicians to use with participants. Worksheets and a range of other tools are provided as appendices.
Tracy May
Includes an explanation and understanding of the four types of child abuse: physical, mental, neglect, and sexual. The author has used all fictional names and omitted the case numbers from quoted court records. It is a memoir, based on her life experiences.
Marian Betancourt
Offers advice on what to do when a relationship turns violent, includes how to call police, defending yourself and your children, finding emergency shelter, and how to begin building a new life.