Author Question: Extensive reviews of the characteristics of battered women reveal that the only common ... (Read 39 times)

mp14 · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

Extensive reviews of the characteristics of battered women reveal that the only common characteristic was that the women had:

A) codependent personalities.

B) witnessed or been victims of personal violence as children.

C) a history of emotional/ psychological instability.

D) specific personality profiles on personality tests that typed them as dependent and other-controlled.

Question 2

Which of the following is one of the ways Egan advises helpers to be sensitive to their own body language?

a. Become preoccupied with your body as a source of communication.
b. Read your own bodily reactions.
c. Use your body to express your judgments about what the client is saying.
d. Use nonverbal behavior to express things that you are feeling but areunwilling to express verbally such as anger.