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Caregiving and Complicated Family Dynamics
By Deborah J. Cohan — 2017
Family violence is a dynamic process, not an event, that takes varying shapes and forms, often over years, and it can be lodged in caregiving. Caregiving, also a process and not an event, can be lodged in a context of family violence.
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Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation.