When women leave violent relationships: Dispelling clinical myths

Psychotherapy

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 343-352

  Gortner, Eric ^b   Jacobson, Neil S ^b   Berns, Sara B ^a   Gottman, John M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUSE; ADULT; COPING BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; FAMILY VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MENTAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; SOCIAL PROBLEM; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0344474663     PISSN: 00333204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0087647     Document Type: Review

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