1. Women Battery
Secondly, battered women need to be taught to change their failure expectancy to reverse a negative cognitive set. ... Women must be able to believe that their behavior will effect what happens to them. ... In phase two, although he may start out by justifying his behavior to himself, the batterer ends up not understanding what happened. His rage is so great that it blinds his control over his behavior. ... When batterers describe acute battering incidents, they concentrate on justifying their behavior. ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate