Breaking Destructive Patterns: Clinical Handbook for the Treatment of Battering

This book is a guide to the treatment of battering. It seeks to understand why women remain with partners who abuse them, and suggests strategies for ending violence without necessarily ending the relationship. It discusses, among other things, couple therapy and the group treatment of abusive men. The book also provides a guide to seeking legal and medical remedies for battering, the individual and group treatment of women who are forced to leave their homes, and means of ensuring their safety.