Intimate partner violence (IPV) significantly impacts women mental and physical wellbeing
and therefore represents a worldwide public health problem. A clear association between …

Research examining the efficacy of community-based domestic violence and sexual assault
services is yielding promising findings; however, little is known about the structure …

Objectives Approaches to measuring intimate partner violence (IPV) in populations often
privilege physical violence, with poor assessment of other experiences. This has led to …

Abstract Knowledge about where battered women present for services and the violence,
biopsychosocial, and demographic factors associated with their help seeking can provide …

This article evaluates whether female victims of severe physical, psychological, or sexual
intimate partner violence (IPV) call police more often than other abused women. Abused …

Although safety planning is a widespread practice with clients impacted by domestic
violence, the research on it is limited. In this article, we present a review of existing literature …

Women's experience with psychological abuse was examined as a predictor of symptoms
and clinical levels of depression, anxiety, and somatization, as well as suicidal ideation and …

OBJECTIVES: Although partner violence during pregnancy has serious consequences for
women's health, little is known about how physical partner violence may change throughout …

This investigation examined the relationship of abuse-specific coping strategies and
perceived responses to abuse disclosure to symptoms of depression and posttraumatic …

Although research and social policy on domestic violence and poverty have largely focused
on factors linked to welfare reform policy goals, low-income abused women have a broader …