Choice and empowerment for battered women who stay: toward a constructivist model.
This article examines the individual and social construction of empowerment for battered women who choose to stay with their abusers through a critical examination of the images of battered women who stay, constructed in the professional literature on various ecological levels, and a proposal of a constructivist model for empowering battered women who choose to stay that balances between their needs and rights. The model includes dimensions of physical and emotional distance as well as a time dimension. Key themes related to battered women's options along these dimensions are presented.
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Bob Shapell School of Social Work, Tel Aviv University, Israel. einatp@post.tau.ac
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D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology*; D002755:Choice Behavior; D017579:Domestic Violence / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology*; D018187:Personal Construct Theory; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods; D012649:Self Concept