A Multidimensional Assessment of a Batterer Treatment Program: An Alert to a Problem?

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 93-101

  Buttell, Frederick P ^a   Carney, Michelle M ^b  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Court ordered batterers; Domestic violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 1042267700     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731503257867     Document Type: Article

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