NCJ Number
101239
Editor(s)
A Lurie,
E B Quitkin
Date Published
1981
Length
172 pages
Annotation
Papers and workshop proceedings from a 1980 New York conference on health and mental health agency roles in identifying and treating spouse abuse consider new perspectives and innovative approaches as well as specific practice areas.
Abstract
A paper based on research at Yale New Haven Hospital addresses the major clinical presentations of wife abuse; the impact of medicine, psychiatry, and social work on the battering syndrome; and lessons learned from the impact of therapeutic intervention on the evolution of the syndrome. Another paper examines the psychodynamics of personality traits and relationships in violence-prone marriages. Remaining papers present a feminist approach to interpreting and stopping wife abuse, health professionals' role in helping abused women benefit from legal remedies, and issues in providing shelter care for abused women. Workshop lectures and discussions cover working with couples and abusers, the impact of abuse on the family, emergency room crisis intervention, women's support groups, alcoholism and spouse abuse, and working with the individual. References. For individual papers, see NCJ 101240-101244.