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The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 1984
Counseling, case management and advocacy services for battered women seeking legal aid broaden their resources and options for dealing with abuse. Findings from a demonstration project specify the range of needs and services mobilized to effectively aid these women with the major life adjustments they and their children face.
Fiedler, Decky +2 more
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Counseling, case management and advocacy services for battered women seeking legal aid broaden their resources and options for dealing with abuse. Findings from a demonstration project specify the range of needs and services mobilized to effectively aid these women with the major life adjustments they and their children face.
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Prosecution of Batterers: Views of African American Battered Women
Violence and Victims, 2002Findings from 207 interviews of urban, African American women indicated that 65% of the women said they favored prosecution of their abusers. A logistic regression showed that the following independent variables were related to significantly decreased odds of opposing prosecution: prosecution being initiated, being separated from partner, and abuser’s ...
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Resilience in Sheltered Battered Women
Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2003While many battered women report physical and psychological distress, others are able to respond to adverse sequelae with less severe outcomes. The findings of this study indicate that resilience assessed by the Resilience Scale was significantly and inversely correlated with three global measures and five subscales of the Symptom Checklist-90R ...
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A survivor group for battered women
Advances in Nursing Science, 1986Nursing care of battered women and other survivors of violence can be effectively provided through group intervention. Using Lifton's survivor group prototype, a group of battered women met on a weekly basis for one and a half years. The model, its implementation, literature supporting the effectiveness of this kind of group, and a content analysis of ...
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BATTERED WOMEN and the MYTH of MASOCHISM
Journal of Psychosocial Nursing and Mental Health Services, 1991Domestic violence is a major health issue. Research on this problem is just in its infancy. It remains a problem because there has been widespread acceptance of violence in our culture as a means of solving and dealing with problems. Women have been the targets.
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Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, 1977
Battering behavior between men and women has been cloaked in a conspiracy of silence for so long that there are many myths that must be destroyed before we can identify the battered woman. Talking about such assault, reporting it to the police, or even conducting research on abused women has been a taboo, although the history of wife abuse is ancient ...
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Battering behavior between men and women has been cloaked in a conspiracy of silence for so long that there are many myths that must be destroyed before we can identify the battered woman. Talking about such assault, reporting it to the police, or even conducting research on abused women has been a taboo, although the history of wife abuse is ancient ...
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Physician Interaction With Battered Women: The Women's Perspective
Archives of Family Medicine, 1998Programs that train health professionals to identify and treat battered women have not previously incorporated systematically obtained advice from battered women to guide physician behavior.To survey battered women to (1) rate the desirability of specific physician behaviors, (2) describe their actual experiences with physicians while seeking abuse ...
L K, Hamberger +3 more
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Journal of Emotional Abuse, 1999
Abstract Information related to factors which influence the adjustment and development of children of battered women is discussed, and evidence for these youngsters experiencing emotional abuse is presented. Research regarding the children's psychological adjustment is reviewed, with mediating variables identified that play a role in the heterogeneity ...
Honore M. Hughes +1 more
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Abstract Information related to factors which influence the adjustment and development of children of battered women is discussed, and evidence for these youngsters experiencing emotional abuse is presented. Research regarding the children's psychological adjustment is reviewed, with mediating variables identified that play a role in the heterogeneity ...
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