Treating Abusive Parents in Outpatient Settings.

Otto, Mary L.

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Publication Date: 1990

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Treating Abusive Parents in Outpatient Settings.

Otto, Mary L.

Journal of Offender Counseling, Services & Rehabilitation, v15 n1 p57-64 1990

Maintains that abusive parents are often the victims of child abuse and consequently experience conflict and trauma in development, leaving them unable to make normal adult adjustment to the role of parent. Presents a psychoeducational outpatient treatment model aimed at helping abusive parents acquire skills that they lack as a result of deficits in their childhood development. (Author/PVV)

Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Development, Family Violence, Group Counseling, Models, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Education, Parent Responsibility, Parent Role, Parenting Skills, Parents, Psychoeducational Methods, Self Concept

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General

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Language: English

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