Woman Battering (Creative Pastoral Care and Counseling) - Softcover

Adams, Carol J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800627857 ISBN 13: 9780800627850

Publisher: Fortress Press, 1994

Synopsis

This book was written as a practical response to many ministers who approached the author after they did not know what to say to a woman suffering violence from her abusive husband. The focus and audience is the Christian community, and the particular issues that are raised in a Christian context. Although a pastor in a congregational setting is used in most examples, the recommendations can be helpful to hospital and college chaplains, deacons, and youth chaplains as well as pastoral counselors.

About this title

About the Author

Carol J. Adams, a nationally recognized author, has been involved in responding to the needs of abused women since the mid-seventies, after graduation from Yale Divinity School. In addition to establishing hotlines for battered women, she has served or chaired various national domestic violence projects and committees, taught in seminaries, and served as a consultant to churches on sexual violence.

From the Back Cover

'Finally a comprehensive resource for pastoral care in response to the trauma of woman-battering. Theologically grounded and practically applied, Woman-Battering is the perfect combination to equip pastors and pastoral counselors to minister with battered women and battering men. Every Christian minister needs this book in order to understand woman-battering in the context of our religious and social culture.'- Marie M. Fortune, Executive Director Center for Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence

Edition details

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0800627857
• ISBN 13: 9780800627850
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128