Get Thee to a Shelter

• NCJ Number: 97730
• Journal: Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare Volume: 11 Issue: 2 Dated: (June 1984) Pages: 366-380
• Author(s): W M Epstein
• Date Published: 1984
• Length: 15 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

Psychotherapy and surrogate care, the two basic strategies for providing services to battered women, are criticized against outcome evidence of their reliability and efficacy.

Abstract

Surrogate care is shown to be the more desirable service approach. Some implications of this conclusion for the helping professions are enumerated. (Publisher abstract)