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The Effects Of Psychodrama Treatment On Levels Of Assertiveness And Locus-Of-Control In Women Who Have Experienced Battering, Jeanne Ball Burger
The Effects Of Psychodrama Treatment On Levels Of Assertiveness And Locus-Of-Control In Women Who Have Experienced Battering, Jeanne Ball Burger
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The purpose of this study was to measure the effects of psychodrama treatment on assertiveness and locus of control for women who sought out-patient therapy to deal with the experience of having been battered. Subjects were required to have been out of their abusive relationships for at least two months.;Forty women completed the study. They were randomly assigned to an experimental group of psychodrama treatment or to a comparison group that received whatever treatment was available to them if the study were not taking place. Each of three sections of psychodrama experimental groups met for one eighteen hour weekend and …