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- Title
'God Just Brought Me Through It': Spiritual Coping Strategies for Resilience Among Intimate Partner Violence Survivors.
- Authors
Drumm, René; Popescu, Marciana; Cooper, Laurie; Trecartin, Shannon; Seifert, Marge; Foster, Tricia; Kilcher, Carole
- Abstract
This study highlights the spiritual coping processes for surviving and healing used by Christian women in a conservative faith community who experienced intimate partner violence (IPV). Using data from 42 in-depth qualitative interviews of survivors of IPV, the findings reveal a pattern of spiritually-based survival and resilience strategies women used while coping with and eventually escaping their traumatic lives. The analysis notes the central role of spirituality as a means women used to move from coping for survival to resilient self-efficacy and healing. These findings assist clinical social workers with identifying and accessing spiritual strengths as a springboard to wellbeing.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; CHRISTIAN spirituality; INTIMATE partner violence; SURVIVORS of abuse; PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience; CHRISTIAN women; SELF-efficacy; WELL-being; PRAYER in Christianity; DATA analysis; CHRISTIANITY; RELIGION
- Publication
Clinical Social Work Journal, 2014, Vol 42, Issue 4, p385
- ISSN
0091-1674
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10615-013-0449-y