Letter: Wife battering.

Violence Against Women: Wife Battering in Chennai

DEVELOPMENT is about protection of human rights of the concerned populations. It pre-supposes active participation of the populace in the decision-making processes while social justice remains one of the most important and cherished goals of development. However, contradictions do remain as a result of various processes not only among nations at a global level, but also significantly within sec...

Going beyond Gender-specific Treatments in Wife Battering: Pro-feminist Couple and Family Therapy

There has been lingering debate as to whether couple and family treatments shouM be employed in situations of conjugal violence. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the theoretical and clinical issues at the center of this controversy, and to offer an argument for the sequential use of relationship therapies as a "second phase" to follow gender-specific individual and group treatments of ...

Wife abuse and battering in the sociocultural context of Arab society.

Despite increasing public, professional, and scientific interest in the problem of wife abuse and battering, little has been written about the importance of sociocultural sensitivity in intervention with abused and battered women in Arab society. In this article, I describe central family values in that society and discuss their relevance to wife abuse and battering. Specifically, the discussio...

US health care takes a battering.

to see an international fund established to subsidize drug purchases and delivery systems in the poorest countries. In Norway this month (April) about 50 experts from around the world are meeting at a workshop organized by WHO and the WTO to discuss differential pricing as a means to ensure that the poor have access to essential drugs without undermining the international patents system — a sys...

A lifeline for battering parents.