Victim Empowerment : Bridging the Systems - Mental Health and Victim Service Providers

Historically, mental health counselors, psychologists, & psychiatrists have not received extensive training in victimization issues. Victim service providers use crisis intervention techniques, including empowerment counseling, to restore the victims to their previous level of functioning. This curriculum & participant's resource manual contains information written from either a mental health or a victim services perspective. Sections: understanding & responding to the trauma of victimization; post traumatic stress disorder, rape trauma syndrome & battering; clinical perspective: & thinking beyond the office. Bibliography.Gentzler, Ida Marie is the author of 'Victim Empowerment : Bridging the Systems - Mental Health and Victim Service Providers', published 1999 under ISBN 9780788183393 and ISBN 0788183397.