Mary Allen

Social Work and Intimate Partner Violence

by Mary Allen

Intimate partner violence is now recognised as a serious human rights abuse and increasingly as an important public health problem with severe consequences for women's physical, mental and sexual health. Therefore,...

Narrative Therapy for Women Experiencing Domestic Violence: Supporting Women's Transitions from Abuse to Safety

by Mary Allen

This book examines how women experiencing domestic violence employ strategies of resistance and survival, and how narrative therapy helps them define their identities and resist abuse. It demonstrates how an...

The Rooms of Heaven

by Mary Allen

"A love story, a memoir, a haunting tale of grief and healing. This book is all that and more." --Chicago Tribune

In the tradition of Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted and Caroline Knapp's Drinking: A Love Story...