Barbara Cottrell is an independent researcher, writer and adult educator, who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Working with a coalition of community groups, Cottrell designed and facilitated a groundbreaking
community-based research project on parent abuse and wrote the Health Canada report, Parent Abuse: The abuse of parents by their teenage children, in 2001.
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