Depressive and Posttraumatic Symptoms Among Women Seeking Protection Orders Against Intimate Partners

Flicker, Sharon M.; Cerulli, Catherine; Swogger, Marc T.; Talbot, Nancy L.

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“…It is common to distinguish between problem-focused versus emotion-focused coping and between engagement versus disengagement. Whereas problem-focused strategies attempt to change the problem that causes the distress, emotion-focused strategies attempt to deal with emotional responses to the problem ( 50 ). A point of departure for this study is the index of different IPV coping strategies that was developed by Goodman and colleagues ( 51 ).…”

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Between desire and rape – narratives about being intimate partners and becoming pregnant in a violent relationship

Edin

Nilsson

2013

Global Health Action

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BackgroundWomen subjected to intimate partner violence (IPV) experience different forms of abuse. Sexual violence is often under-reported because physically abused women, in particular, might see forced sex as an obligatory part of the sexual interplay. Accordingly, abused women have less sexual autonomy and experience unplanned pregnancies more often than other women.ObjectiveTo describe and analyse nine Swedish women's retrospective stories about IPV with a focus on power and coping strategies as intimate partners, particularly regarding experiences of sex, contraception, and becoming pregnant.DesignNine qualitative interviews were carried out with women who had been subjected to very severe violence in their intimate relationships and during at least one pregnancy. The stories were analysed using ‘Narrative method’ with the emphasis on the women's lived experiences.ResultsDespite the violence and many contradictory and ambivalent feelings, two of the women described having sex as desirable, reciprocal and as a respite from the rest of the relationship. The other seven women gave a negative and totally different picture, and they viewed sex either as obligatory or as a necessity to prevent or soothe aggression or referred to it as rape and as something that was physically forced upon them. The women's descriptions of their pregnancies ranged from being carefully planned and mostly wanted to completely unwelcome and including flawed contraceptive efforts with subsequent abortions.ConclusionsWomen subjected to IPV have diverse and complex experiences that have effects on all parts of the relationship. Intimacy might for some turn into force and rape, but for others sex does not necessarily exclude pleasure and desire and can be a haven of rest from an otherwise violent relationship. Accordingly, women may tell stories that differ from the ones expected as ‘the typical abuse story’, and this complexity needs to be recognized and dealt with when women seek healthcare, especially concerning contraceptives, abortions, and pregnancies.

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Between desire and rape – narratives about being intimate partners and becoming pregnant in a violent relationship

Edin

Nilsson

2013

Global Health Action

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“…However, the connection of these problems is often lost when women come into contact with support services (Humphreys & Thiara, 2003;Flicker, Cerulli, Swogger & Talbot, 2012). Another concern is the deficit discourse evident in much work on domestic violence (Hamby, 2014) as well as in mental health, which tends to attribute failures to women victims.…”

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“…Flicker et al (2012) note that lack of motivation associated with depression, as well as coping strategies such as disengagement and denial, can hinder women victims from reaching out to potentially supportive services.…”

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Women’s experiences of domestic violence and mental health: Findings from a European empowerment project.

Lloyd

Ramon

Vakalopoulou

et al. 2017

Psychology of Violence

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Abstract:Objective: Research shows that women experiencing domestic violence and mental health problems often fall into gaps in services between support for domestic violence and support for mental health. This article reports on an action research project adopting a strengths-based approach to recovery funded by the European Commission. Multi-method research was carried out in five European countries examining how interconnections of domestic violence and mental health impact the lives of women, how their lives can be improved by empowering strategies, and how service providers' professional learning can be developed. Women survivors' strengths and post-traumatic growth in the context of domestic violence remains a considerably under-researched area and the study provides new insights into adopting a strengthsbased framework. Method: Free training programs were designed, delivered and evaluated for two groups of participants (n=136) pertaining to women service users, and mental health service providers (men and women) working with abused women. Results: Program evaluation data gained through surveys and focus groups show that women participants reported growth in self-esteem and coping skills, while professionals felt better equipped to address the tandem issues of domestic violence and mental health. Conclusions: Findings extend current knowledge about the barriers and facilitators to empowerment and strengths-based recovery perspectives, professional learning, and offer a more nuanced understanding of women's agential ability for post-traumatic growth. Thank you for submitting a revision. We appreciate your work on this. However, there are some outstanding issues that require addressing before your manuscript can be accepted for publication.There are three key points that you still need to address: You need to provide considerably more evidence to support the statements:'The RSE Scale has high ratings in reliability, the CES-D Scale has high internal consistency and repeatability, and the NAI demonstrates excellent internal consistency and good test-retest reliability.' And 'PREMIS is a reliable tool for measuring physician preparedness for managing cases of IPV.' We have supported these statements with references to literature. Page 18 -the paragraph beginning 'Mental health providers' completed…' need to make it explicit that the PREMIS measure was implemented prior to the training programme. This also needs to be explicit in the heading of Table 2. You need to explain in your limitations section why the measure wasn't used again following the training to assess change. The lack of any quantitative measure of change consequent to the training is a weakness of the study. The PREMIS measure was used again at the 6-month follow-up stage following the training but we had thought the number of participants (n=25) was too low to use the data. On reflection, we believe the responses are useful and in the revised manuscript we have compared the T1 and T3 data, and changed There are a number of other amendments re...

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“…Researchers have generally viewed women's efforts to actively manage the abuse, or 'engagement' coping (such as developing supportive relationships with others), as helpful (Taft, Resick, Panuzio, Vogt & Mechanic, 2007). However, a recent study concluded that no coping strategy gave women protection from the negative mental health consequences of abuse (Flicker, Cerulli, Swagger & Talbot, 2012).…”

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‘You just deal with it. You have to when you’ve got a child’: A narrative analysis of mothers’ accounts of how they coped, both during an abusive relationship and after leaving

Jones

Vetere

2016

Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry

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A narrative analysis explored the accounts of eight mothers, each of whom had left an abusive relationship at least 12 months previously. Existing research investigating the strategies used by women to cope with domestic violence rarely considers women in their capacity as mothers. Furthermore, women's lives after leaving an abusive relationship have received limited research attention. Thus, this study aimed to understand how women described coping with domestic violence and mothering their children, both during an abusive relationship and after leaving. The analysis focused on how the eight participants described their experiences (narrative form) as well as what they talked about (narrative content). Three types of narrative form were identified: (1) 'The story told to help others', (2) 'The story too difficult to tell' and (3) 'Where's my story going?' Each woman spoke about the contextual factors that influenced whether she coped with domestic violence by seeking support from others, changing her thinking or changing her behaviour. Caring for their children was a major source of support for all the women both during their relationship and after leaving. The findings indicate that mothers who have been abused by their intimate partner may come into contact with a wide range of social and emergency support services. Implications for clinical practice, service delivery and service development relate to the different ways of supporting women in talking about abuse and also the need to recognise trauma in parents.

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Depressive and Posttraumatic Symptoms Among Women Seeking Protection Orders Against Intimate Partners

Cited by 49 publications

References 52 publications

Between desire and rape – narratives about being intimate partners and becoming pregnant in a violent relationship

Between desire and rape – narratives about being intimate partners and becoming pregnant in a violent relationship

Women’s experiences of domestic violence and mental health: Findings from a European empowerment project.

‘You just deal with it. You have to when you’ve got a child’: A narrative analysis of mothers’ accounts of how they coped, both during an abusive relationship and after leaving

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