Breaking the Web of Abuse and Silence: Voices of Battered Women in Japan

Social Work

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 389-400

  Yoshihama, Mieko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Action research; Battered women; Domestic violence; Focus groups; Japan

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATTERED WOMAN; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; JAPAN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF HELP; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL WORK; VICTIM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATTERED WOMEN; CRIME VICTIMS; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; JAPAN; PREJUDICE; SELF-HELP GROUPS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL WORK, PSYCHIATRIC; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0036778532     PISSN: 00378046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/sw/47.4.389     Document Type: Article

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