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Peer reviewedTurner, Susan F.; Shapiro, Constance Hoenk – Social Work, 1986
Proposes an approach that incorporates the traditional provision of concrete services and addresses the powerful emotional ties that keep many women from effecting a lasting separation from their abusive partners. Focuses on helping battered women identify and mourn the losses accompanying separation. (Author/ABB)
Descriptors: Anger, Battered Women, Emotional Adjustment, Grief
Peer reviewedAguirre, B. E. – Social Work, 1985
Results of a statistical analysis of a study of battered wives in shelters indicated that the wives' economic dependence on their husbands almost always ensured that they would return to their husbands and that respondents who considered the shelters useful had a higher probability of returning to their husbands. (Author)
Descriptors: Battered Women, Family Violence, Family Violence Shelters, Financial Needs
