Affiliation:
1. Southern University
2. Battered Women's Program, New Orleans, LA
3. St. Bernard Group Home, Meraux, LA
Abstract
This study examines the effectiveness of two types of social work counseling services offered to battered women, using a comparative treatment groups design. One group of 10 battered women received standardized crisis intervention servicesfollowed by eight sessions of counseling based on a grief resolution orientation, whereas a second group of 10 clients received feminist-oriented counseling following crisis intervention. Participants were randomly assigned. Overall, the 20 battered women reported improved self-esteem, self-efficacy, and more positive attitudes toward feminism. However, these improvements were found to have occurred primarily among the clients receiving grief-resolution-oriented counseling, not among those receiving feminist counseling. Areas for future research on social work practice in this area are discussed.
Subject
General Psychology,Sociology and Political Science,Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
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