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Verbal Abuse: The Invisible Wounds Experienced By Military Wives, Linda Carman Copel
Verbal Abuse: The Invisible Wounds Experienced By Military Wives, Linda Carman Copel
International Nursing Research Congress (INRC)
Session presented on Sunday, July 26, 2015:
Purpose: The specific objectives of this study were to describe the experience of verbal abuse by military spouses, determine if the experiences of verbal abuse were antecedents to other types of abuse, and construct a model to explain the experience of verbal abuse for military spouses.
Methods: A phenomenological research design was used to address verbal abuse as it was experienced by female military spouses. The population was adult women married to spouses presently serving in the United States Armed Forces. These women were currently participating in either individual counseling or a women's …