Healing From Intimate Partner Violence: An Empowerment Wheel to Guide the Recovery Journey

Czerny, Astra B.; Lassiter, Pamela S.

doi:10.1080/15401383.2016.1222321

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“…This study exploring the process of forgiveness amongst IPV women survivors found forgiveness to be a strength-based process consisting of empowerment, transformation, and integration stages, with different focuses in each stage. The empowerment stage is the initial stage in which survivors rebuild their lives and adapt to the new environment, an important step and transition in their recovery from the IPV experience (Czerny & Lassiter, 2016;Hou et al, 2013). Confirming the importance of empowerment (Miguel et al, 2015;Zimmerman, 1995), the women survivors in the present study obtained intrapersonal empowerment (a sense of mastery in life) through empowerment at the behavioural (developing specific coping strategies to deal with stress or challenges) and interpersonal levels (social support and reflection of external responses).…”

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Process of forgiveness in the recovery of Chinese women survivors of intimate partner violence: Empowerment, transformation, and integration

Choi

2021

Health Soc Care Community

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women, a transgression by a former or current male partner in the form of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse (García-Moreno et al., 2005), usually lead to long-term negative consequences on women's health (e.g., fibromyalgia, sleeping problems), identity (e.g., passive and shameful feelings towards self), finances (e.g., unemployment), and interpersonal relationships

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Process of forgiveness in the recovery of Chinese women survivors of intimate partner violence: Empowerment, transformation, and integration

Choi

2021

Health Soc Care Community

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“…For instance, the survivors in this research who saw their former partners only as the fathers of their children suggested that they had been able to sever their emotional bonds with those partners and perceive their roles as that of co-parent. To some degree, clear boundaries prevent survivors from reconciling and help them reduce their emotional investment in the abusive relationship and devote it to recovery (Czerny & Lassiter, 2016; Hardesty et al, 2016; Lammers et al, 2005; Loring, 1994), from which forgiveness emerges gradually.…”

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Understanding Forgiveness After Leaving an Abusive Relationship: The Voices of Chinese Female Intimate Partner Violence Survivors

Choi

2020

Violence Against Women

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Forgiveness is known to play an important role in recovery studies of female intimate partner violence (IPV) survivors. However, survivors’ understanding of forgiveness remains unclear. This study explored forgiveness through semi-structured interviews with 25 Chinese women. The results indicate that forgiveness is an unintended process that comprises the alleviation of a grudge held against former partners and a reframed understanding of them. It does not involve reconciliation. Moreover, establishment of clear boundaries is a precondition for forgiveness. The findings supplement knowledge on forgiveness and the importance of cognitive reframing, emotion regulation, and establishing clear boundaries in forgiveness and recovery.

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“…Psychological violence is likely to reduce self-kindness and is thus related to less meaning in life, less positive reframing of stressful events, and result in less growth and maturity in the victim of IPV [17]. Victims of IPV also often lose their internal ego structure [18]. Leaving an IPV relationship is a complex process that takes place over time, even after the violent relationship has ended [4].…”

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“I’m a Winner, Not a Victim”: The Facilitating Factors of Post-Traumatic Growth among Women Who Have Suffered Intimate Partner Violence

Bryngeirsdottir

Halldórsdóttir

2022

IJERPH

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Post-traumatic growth (PTG) is a positive psychological change following trauma. Intimate partner violence (IPV) is one such trauma. The aim of this phenomenological study was to explore PTG from the perspective of women who have survived IPV as well as their perceptions of PTG. Twenty-two female IPV survivors aged 23–56 who reached PTG, according to the working definition used, were interviewed. The overriding theme of the study was “I’m a winner, not a victim”, which describes the essence of the women’s experience of PTG. They described their experience as a shift from being suffering victims of IPV to becoming winners who enjoyed PTG. They felt that their positive attitude and personal strengths had helped them to reach PTG as well as to face the fact that they had been in an abusive relationship, thus forgiving and believing in themselves and taking responsibility for their own health and well-being. They sought knowledge about violence, how to process it, and how to respond to triggers. They set boundaries for their perpetrators and were in as little contact with them as possible. They chose the company of positive, supportive, and constructive people and situations where they were not being controlled. It was concluded that, even though suffering IPV is a terrible experience that no one should endure, the participants’ experiences had resulted in PTG that they treasured.

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Healing From Intimate Partner Violence: An Empowerment Wheel to Guide the Recovery Journey

Cited by 11 publications

References 38 publications

Process of forgiveness in the recovery of Chinese women survivors of intimate partner violence: Empowerment, transformation, and integration

Process of forgiveness in the recovery of Chinese women survivors of intimate partner violence: Empowerment, transformation, and integration

Understanding Forgiveness After Leaving an Abusive Relationship: The Voices of Chinese Female Intimate Partner Violence Survivors

“I’m a Winner, Not a Victim”: The Facilitating Factors of Post-Traumatic Growth among Women Who Have Suffered Intimate Partner Violence

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