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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"Battered Women"”.
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Neuropsychological Assessment of Battered Women
… on the neuropsychological functioning of women. Twenty-five battered women and twenty-five non-battered women were administered a neuropsychological screening battery (11 separate tests, yielding 16 variables) to assess for possible deficits in the areas of attention/concentration, memory, …
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Battered women in Botswana, Volume2
… and its practical effect on the lives of women in that country.
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Battered women: self-defence and provocation
The act of 'being battered' is within the realm of experience of many women and may involve not only actual physical assault but also psychologically debilitating practices, all of which occur in a society which seems to be unable to realise the extent of the problem. 'Wife beating' has always been …
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Determination of Nurses Awareness of Battered Women
… to identify knowledge level of nurses regarding battered women. There was N= 229, or a 68.7% response rate, of usable questionnaires obtained. Factors analyzed were 1) a nurse's general knowledge level of battered women, 2) nurse's perception of capability of identifying a battered woman, 3) a …
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Behavior problems in children of battered women
… scale scores. Implications for treating women and children of domestic violence are discussed.</p>
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The Experience of Rural Battered Women: Overcoming Challenges
… the impact of physical isolation in rural battered women. The relationships between physical isolation, level of traumatic symptoms and social support are assessed. By definition rural women are usually geographically isolated, which may contribute to the difficulty of leaving abusive …
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The Experience of Rural Battered Women: Overcoming Challenges
… the impact of physical isolation in rural battered women. The relationships between physical isolation, level of traumatic symptoms and social support are assessed. By definition rural women are usually geographically isolated, which may contribute to the difficulty of leaving abusive …
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Art Therapy Program for Children of Battered Women
… attention to this population, the Walnut Avenue Women’s Center (WAWC) seeks funding for an art therapy program for children of battered women, with children and their mothers, and support groups for older children of battered women. Women’s Crisis Support, which operates the battered women’s …
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The Ambivalent Agency: Battered Women Who Kill in Turkey
This study focused on the agency of battered women who kill in Turkey by conducting face- to-face interviews and using news articles covering the stories of three battered women who killed their abusers. Using a feminist poststructuralist theory and intersectionality analysis, the study analysed …
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Training needs assessment of workers providing services to battered women
… needs of workers who provide services to battered women and the characteristics of workers who would be willing to train trainers to educate other workers. The data were collected by two mail-out questionnaires returned by 118 frontline workers and 53 administrators from agencies providing …
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Expert witness testimony in jury verdicts when battered women kill
… the relationship between the verdicts when battered women syndrome expert witness testimony is provided, in Rowan University undergraduate students (N = 100). Students were provided with experimental packets, read a mock legal case, answered four questionnaires, and conducted a mock jury …
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Attributions for Violence in Relationships: Do Battered Women Blame Themselves?
… of blame for spousal violence made by women who were in violent relationships with those of abused women who had sought shelter and those of women who had never been abused. Both clinicians and researchers (e.g., Frieze, 1979; Walker, 1979) have included victims of marital abuse among …
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Stalking of battered women before and after seeking criminal justice help
… 1.4 million Americans are stalked every year and women are four times more likely to be stalking victims and twice as likely to be stalked by an intimate partner. Tjaden and Thoennes found that 50% of stalking victims reported the behavior to police and indicated a warning from police was more …
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Improving religious organizations' effectiveness with battered women: advice from victim advocates
… organizations are in a unique position to assist battered women. The purpose of this study was to survey counselor/advocates who work at battered women's shelters to determine what advice they have to give to religious organizations to improve their effectiveness in helping battered women. The …
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Battered women: Exploring motivating factors to leave or remain in violent relationships
The current study explores factors motivating women to leave or remain in violent relationships from an interactionist perspective. Literature reviewed will integrate gender socialization and labeling with studies on domestic violence to investigate a woman's role in becoming a victim and her …
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A discursive model of gendered social control: The case of battered women
… programs were predicted by the number of women sheltered; social service discourse was predicted by social service programs and feminist discourse was predicted by the number of women sheltered. These findings suggest that some program agendas put in place by domestic violence shelters may …
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