Helping Battered Women provides an overview of programs and policies for helping battered women. It covers a wide range of possible responses and interventions by police, doctors, social workers, and psychiatrists, and includes chapters on hotlines, women's shelters, support groups, victim advocacy services, emergency and mental health interventions, and legal remedies.

Women battering is one of the most pervasive and dangerous problems in American society. Helping abused women escape and remain free from violent relationships is the challenge the authors of this book have undertaken. They focus on the recently developed and implemented public policies, programs and intervention methods effective in the elimination of domestic violence and breaking the inter-generational cycle of abuse.