Counseling Female Offenders and Victims: A Strengths-Restorative Approach

by Katherine Stuart van Wormer

In this volume van Wormer establishes a link between the crimes of fem ale offenders and environmental factors such as substance abuse and se xual abuse. Combining strategies from the fields of criminal justice a nd social work, she shows how to empower female offenders and how to r ehabilitate them to society by building on their personal strengths. From her unique tstrengths-restorativev approach the author presents s trategies for anger management, substance abuse treatment, and domesti c violence counseling. This book will be important reading for social workers and counselors in criminal justice as well as students in the field.

377 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 2001