Counseling Female Offenders and Victims: A Strengths-Restorative Approach (Springer Series on Social Work) [Hardcover]

Katherine S. Van Wormer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2001 | ISBN-10: 0826113958 | ISBN-13: 978-0826113955 | Edition: 1

In this volume van Wormer establishes a link between the crimes of fem ale offenders and environmental factors such as substance abuse and se xual abuse. Combining strategies from the fields of criminal justice a nd social work, she shows how to empower female offenders and how to r ehabilitate them to society by building on their personal strengths. From her unique tstrengths-restorativev approach the author presents s trategies for anger management, substance abuse treatment, and domesti c violence counseling. This book will be important reading for social workers and counselors in criminal justice as well as students in the field.

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"a real contribution to existing feminist social work literature." -- Elaine Congress,Professor and Director of the Social Work Doctoral Program,Fordham University.

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In this volume,van Wormer establishes a link between the crimes of female offenders and environmental factors such as substance abuse and sexual abuse. Combining strategies from the fields of criminal justice and social work,she shows how to empower female offenders and to rehabilitate them to society by building on their personal strengths.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 377 pages
• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company; 1 edition (March 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0826113958
• ISBN-13: 978-0826113955
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,322,569 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Katherine van Wormer, MSSW, Ph.D., grew up in New Orleans, taught English in Northern Ireland and is Professor of Social Work at the University of Northern Iowa. She worked extensively in the field of substance abuse counseling in Washington State and Norway. Dr. van Wormer has authored or co-authored 16 books. Her most recent contributions are two volumes of Human Behavior and the Social Environment, Micro and Macro Levels (Oxford University Press), Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective (Cengage), Women and the Criminal Justice System (Prentice Hall), and Death by Domestic Violence: Preventing the Murders and the Murder-Suicides (Praeger), and Working with Female Offenders: A Gender Sensitive Approach.