Exploring the relevance of interpersonal dependency as a treatment issue in batterer intervention

Research on Social Work Practice

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 276-286

  Carney, Michelle Mohr ^a   Buttell, Fred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Batterers; Interpersonal dependency

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645659971     PISSN: 10497315     EISSN: 15527581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049731505282836     Document Type: Article

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