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Conference Women in Crisis Conference (1st : 1979 : New York, N.Y.)

Title Women in crisis / edited by Penelope Russianoff ; sponsored by Women in Crisis, Inc.

Publication Info. New York, N.Y. : Human Sciences Press, [1981]
©1981

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.42 W872W    Check Shelf
Description 319 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents Part I. Women in crisis : the issue / Eleanor Holmes Norton -- Learned helplessness / Penelope Russianoff -- Learned helplessness, depression, and alcohol problems of women / Edith S. Losansky Gomberg -- The stigmatized woman / Rose Leone -- The double bind : minority women / Marguerite Saunders -- The sparse ghetto : service delivery in a rural area / Joan Weitzel -- Reaching the middle class female / Nikki N. Duffié -- Reaching the middle class alcoholic / Judith Seixas -- Part II. Intervention : problems and approaches -- Holistic approaches for women / Catherine Milton -- The woman in treatment : evaluation and diagnostic implications / Herbert J. Freudenberger -- Sexism in treatment / Barbara A. Lewis -- Sexism in drug abuse treatment programs / Stephen J. Levy -- Women and substance abuse : treatment issues / David E. Smith and Millicent E. Buxton -- Plenary session : intervention/service delivery systems / Severa Austin -- Plenary session : intervention/service delivery systems / Joyce Lazar -- Innovative alcoholism programs for women / Norma Finkelstein -- Motivation and the alcoholic woman / Sheila B. Blume -- Breaking cycles of victimization : the shelter as an affirmative institution / Peggy Ann McGarry and Dennis McGrath -- The mythology of rape / Susan Halpern -- In the pursuit of justice in sentencing and prison / David Fogel -- The role of the family in teenage pregnancy : support or sabotage / Violet Padayachi Cherry -- Pregnancy and drinking / Lucy Barry Robe -- Prostituion and sexual violence / Jennifer James -- Young female offenders in Massachusetts : toward leaving the juvenile justice system successfully / Carol Peacock -- The unique employment problems of female offenders returning to the community and labor market / Barbara Taylor -- Vocational rehabilitation : options for women / Denise Cappelli -- Stereotypes and stigma : barriers to recovery / Jacquelyn H. Hall -- Part III. Making change / Bella S. Abzug -- Postintervention and support systems / Ruth W. Messinger -- Establishing interdisciplinary treatment networks / Flora Koppel -- Self-power and leadership / Marlene Crosby Mainker -- Federal support : understanding and utilizing the federal dollar / Marilee Grygelko.
Subject Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
Women's rights -- United States -- Congresses.
Women -- Services for -- United States -- Congresses.
Social work with women -- United States -- Congresses.
Social Problems -- Congresses.
Women's Rights -- Congresses.
Added Author Russianoff, Penelope.
Women in Crisis, Inc.
ISBN 0898850517
0898850525
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