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Women's reasons for leaving abusive spouses

Health Care for Women International, 1991
Research has focused on factors associated with leaving physically abusive relationships, yet little is known about what the woman thinks when she leaves. Fifty-one formerly battered women from rural and metropolitan areas in two midwestern states described 86 reasons for leaving a physically abusive relationship.
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Spouse Abuse and Other Domestic Violence

Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1988
Concern about the different forms of domestic violence continues to escalate. Beginning with identification of child abuse in the 1960s; spouse abuse, primarily of women, in the 1970s; and, most recently, identification of the rising incidence of elder abuse and neglect, the medical community, state, local, and federal governmental agencies and the ...
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EFFECTIVENESS OF COUPLES TREATMENT FOR SPOUSE ABUSE

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 2003
Despite its controversy, carefully conceptualized and delivered couples treatment appears to be at least as effective as traditional treatment for domestic violence, and preliminary data suggests that it does not place women at greater risk for injury. However, the body of research on which these conclusions rest is sparse.
Sandra M, Stith, Karen H, Rosen, Eric E, McCollum   +2 more
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Burns in Men Secondary to Spouse Abuse

Journal of Burn Care & Rehabilitation, 1994
A retrospective study of adult patients admitted to the burn center identified 61 male patients who claimed their injury to be secondary to spouse abuse. This may not be a true prevalence, because there may be many more unidentified cases. Few data are available concerning male spouse abuse in literature.
C, Balakrishnan, L, Imel, J K, Prasad
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Spouse Abuse and Child Abuse by Army Soldiers

Journal of Family Violence, 2007
This study analyzed data collected by the U.S. Army’s Family Advocacy Program, the group primarily responsible for family violence prevention, identification, evaluation, treatment, and follow-up on Army installations. Patterns of spouse abuse and child abuse perpetrated within a five year period (2000–2004) were examined in a sample of 10,864 Army ...
Sandra L. Martin, Deborah A. Gibbs, Ruby E. Johnson, E. Danielle Rentz, Monique Clinton-Sherrod, Jennifer Hardison   +5 more
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Cultural Anthropology and Spouse Abuse

Current Anthropology, 1984
by GERALD M. ERCHAK Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. 12866, U.S.A. 7 XII 83 Although spouse abuse is a major and constant concern in the United States, cultural anthropologists have had little to say on the topic.
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Comparing Different Types of Child Abuse and Spouse Abuse Offenders

Violence and Victims, 2004
This study examined differences in offenders’ background characteristics, personal and interpersonal problems, and family climate between three types of child abuse offenders (neglecters, physical abusers, and psychological abusers) and two forms of spouse abuse offenders (physical abusers and psychological abusers) in two large samples (child abuse n =
Joe F, Pittman, Chih-Yuan S, Lee
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Identified spouse abuse as a risk factor for child abuse

Child Abuse & Neglect, 2000
There are limited data on the extent to which spouse abuse in a family is a risk factor for child abuse.To estimate the subsequent relative risk of child abuse in families with a report of spouse abuse compared with other families.Cohort study.Analysis of a centralized US Army databaseMarried couples with children with at least one spouse on active ...
P D, Rumm, P, Cummings, M R, Krauss, M A, Bell, F P, Rivara   +4 more
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Alcohol and Spouse Abuse Ethnic Differences

2002
This chapter examines theoretical and empirical evidence on the interplay between ethnicity, structural and cultural factors, and alcohol-related assaults against wives and considers whether there is a differential vulnerability to such assaults among varying ethnic groups.
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Spouse abuse: An ecosystemic approach

Contemporary Family Therapy, 1989
This paper provides a perspective on spouse abuse from an ecosystemic approach suggested by second order cybernetics. An attempt is made to demonstrate the interactional basis for an understanding of spouse abuse and to suggest that the failure to use an ecosystemic perspective may result in therapists and other helpers inadvertently exacerbating the ...
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