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Assessing The Impact Of Domestic Violence Upon The Lives Of African American Women, Meleh Duarto
Assessing The Impact Of Domestic Violence Upon The Lives Of African American Women, Meleh Duarto
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Domestic violence is a public health problem in the United States. It can be associated with physical, mental, emotional, and psychological problems for the victims. African American (AA) women experience this type of violence more than any other ethnicity or race. The purpose of this phenomenological qualitative study is to identify and report AA women’s lived experiences of domestic violence. Even though research devoted to understanding domestic/intimate partner violence’s consequences is limited, this problem has devastating consequences for AA women. This problem needs immediate attention. Likewise, there is limited empirical research done on the topic: Why do African Americans experience …
Why A Women’S Domestic Violence Long-Term Shelter Is Needed, Markquatt Ford
Why A Women’S Domestic Violence Long-Term Shelter Is Needed, Markquatt Ford
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
This qualitative project provided a content analysis of primary and secondary data to do a need assessment of how a short-term shelter, a home for victims of domestic violence in Kansas City, Mo, can turn into a long-term shelter for victims of domestic violence. This organization was a short-term shelter, a not-for-profit organization that works for the positive social change and rehabilitation of female victims of domestic violence in Kansas City, Mo. The organization followed a traditional organizational model with a short-term scope of action. A long-term shelter is supposed to provide the residents with sufficient programs for recovery to …
Intimate Partner Violence: Effects Of Emotional Abuse In Women, Judith Marie Watiti
Intimate Partner Violence: Effects Of Emotional Abuse In Women, Judith Marie Watiti
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
AbstractEstimates by the U.S. Bureau of Statistics point to over 30% of women being victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) yearly. Severity and frequency of violence in childhood have been shown in several studies to predict adult interpersonal violence. Research has shown that emotional abuse predicts other forms of abuse, thus identifying it as a potential causal link to IPV. The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine whether emotional abuse mediates the relationship between history of childhood abuse and IPV. Social learning theory served as the theoretical framework for the study, in which 182 adult female participants from …
Treatment Barriers Confronted By African American Women In Past Abusive Relationships, Akhirah Shahidah Lewis
Treatment Barriers Confronted By African American Women In Past Abusive Relationships, Akhirah Shahidah Lewis
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a widespread problem that impacts 5.3 million women annually in the United States, and African American women experience IPV at a 35% rate higher than Caucasian women and 2.5 times higher than other races. The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to examine the treatment barriers confronted by African American women in past abusive relationships. This research addressed the extent to which IPV affected African American women regarding the challenges resulting from IPV, the relevant impacts, and the treatment barriers. The ecological systems theory developed by Bronfenbrenner in 1979 was used as the theoretical …