Estelle Disch

Office: Wheatley, 4th floor, Rm 18
Telephone: 617-287-6256
Email: estelle.disch@umb.edu

Research

Coordinating and assessing First Year Seminar Program at UMass Boston; research on sexual abuse by health and mental health care professionals and clergy.

Representative Publications

Disch, Estelle. 2006.Sexual Victimization and Revictimization of Women by Professionals: Client Experiences and Implications for Subsequent Treatment. Women & Therapy, 29 (1&2),41-61.

Disch, E., Editor. (2006). Reconstructing Gender: A Multicultural Anthology, Fourth Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill. (Earlier editions: 1997, 1999, 2003).

Disch, E. (2001). Sex in the Consulting Room, the Examining Room, and the Sacristy: Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Professionals. The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 71 (2), 204-217.

Additional Publications

Chapters in Books:

Disch, E. 1993. "The politics of curricular change: Establishing a Diversity Requirement at the University of Massachusetts at Boston." In Thompson, B. and Tyagi, S. Beyond a Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence (pp. 195-213). Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press

Articles:

Billson, J. and Disch, E. 1991. "Empowering women: A Clinical Sociology Model for Working with Women in Groups." Rebach, H. and Bruhn, J., Eds. Handbook of Clinical Sociology (323-343), New York: Plenum