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Abuse of Women with Disabilities: Toward an Empowerment Perspective

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Abuse of women with disabilities is a significant societal problem of which practitioners, service providers, and other professionals must be aware, respond to, and work to alleviate. Practitioners in most settings will encounter client systems impacted by disability, and many of their clients may be victims of abuse. Primary objectives of this paper are (1) to summarize issues and problems relevant to abuse of women with disabilities (2) to describe some of the empowering, proactive attitudes and behaviors of victim-survivors and their support networks, and (3) to further emphasize the need for practitioners to give primacy to helping such clients empower themselves to (re)take and maintain charge of their lives.

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Foster, K., Sandel, M. Abuse of Women with Disabilities: Toward an Empowerment Perspective. Sex Disabil 28, 177–186 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11195-010-9156-6

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