Counseling to end violence against women : a subversive model / Mollie Whalen.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Counseling and social change -- Movements for women's liberation -- Debated issues in feminism and the emergence of feminist therapy -- The radical potential of the battered women's movement -- Counseling practice with battered women -- Case study: counseling in feminist social change programs -- Counseling to end woman battering -- Carrying it on

Whalen argues that a counsellor working with an abused woman should not only aim to empower the client to change a situation that is intolerable for that particular woman, but should aim to change the social conditions that foster abuse.