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Lifetime prevalence of violence against Latina immigrants: legal and policy implications
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The prevalence of various forms of domestic violence experienced by Latina immigrant women, the nature of the battering and extreme cruelty they experience, and public policy implications of the findings are examined.Abstract:
Although domestic violence plagues communities of all races, socio-economic status and geographical locations, some communities within the U.S. are more vulnerable because victims' alternatives to ...read more
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Differences in Effects of Domestic Violence Between Latina and Non
TL;DR: Results indicated that Latina women who had been victims of domestic violence had significantly greater trauma-related symptoms, depression, lower social and personal self-esteem, and were less likely to make global attributions for positive events than were non-Latina women.
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“Salía de uno y me metí en otro1”: Exploring the Migration-Violence Nexus Among Central American Women:
TL;DR: Increasing numbers of Central American women cross the US-Mexico border, prompting social service providers, advocates, and policy makers to investigate motivations and appropriate responses to these women.
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Examining the Relationship Between Economic Abuse and Mental Health Among Latina Intimate Partner Violence Survivors in the United States.
TL;DR: Examining the associations between economic abuse and the mental health symptoms reported by 245 Latina IPV survivors in the United States revealed that economic abuse did not uniquely predict mental health after accounting for other forms of IPV victimization and sociodemographic characteristics.
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Consequences of the exposure to abuse in the family of origin among victims of intimate partner violence in Nicaragua.
TL;DR: An increased risk of experiencing stressful life events (SLE) during the lives of Nicaraguan victims of IPV in situations of extreme poverty according to their exposure to episodes of violence in their family of origin.
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Addressing Wife Abuse in Mexican Immigrant Couples: Challenges for Family Social Workers
TL;DR: This article addresses wife abuse in undocumented Mexican immigrant couples and suggests an ecosystems treatment approach that takes into consideration the structural forces of oppression and discrimination on abusive behaviors in the home and combines individual, family and community level interventions to help immigrant men stop the abuse.
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Prevalence, Incidence, and Consequences of Violence Against Women: Findings From the National Violence Against Women Survey
Patricia Tjaden,Nancy Thoennes +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a national telephone survey on violence against women was conducted from November 1995 to May 1996, with approximately 8,000 women and 8, 000 men, providing comparable data on women's and men's experiences with violent victimization.
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The Battered Woman Syndrome
TL;DR: The third edition of the "Battered Woman Syndrome" integrates new research findings about the Battered Woman Syndrome and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder together with the findings from thirty years ago when Walker first proposed such a syndrome.
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The Battered Woman Syndrome
Leigh A. Leslie,Lenore E. Walker +1 more
TL;DR: The third edition of the "Battered Woman Syndrome" integrates new research findings about the Battered Woman Syndrome and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder together with the findings from thirty years ago when Walker first proposed such a syndrome as discussed by the authors.
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The development of a measure of psychological maltreatment of women by their male partners.
TL;DR: The initial version of the scale was administered to 407 men and 207 women at intake into a domestic violence program, and the agreement of men's and women’s reports was low, though the scores on the domination-isolation subscale were significantly correlated.
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Family Violence in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Linda E. Saltzman,David Levinson +1 more
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