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- Title
Intimate Partner Violence Survivors' Perspectives on Coping With Family Court Processes.
- Authors
Bradshaw, Julia; Gutowski, Ellen R.; Nyenyezi, Kashoro
- Abstract
Although intimate partner violence (IPV)-exposed mothers report distress during family court proceedings, no known research examines what helps them cope. We analyzed qualitative responses from 214 IPV-exposed mothers to the question of who/what helped during family court. Participants described (a) receiving social support, (b) accessing tools and resources, (c) modifying actions, thoughts, and emotions to adapt to a system that is not trauma-informed, (d) being believed/validated, and (e) managing post-separation family life as helpful. Participants also reported (f) barriers to navigating family law proceedings; a few expressed nothing helped. Findings support a trauma-informed, network-oriented approach to supporting family court-involved survivor mothers.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TORTURE victims; THOUGHT &; thinking; WELL-being; SOCIAL support; PSYCHOLOGY of mothers; SOCIAL networks; VIOLENCE; INTIMATE partner violence; GENDER; QUALITATIVE research; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; COURTS; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; LEGAL procedure; PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; EMOTIONS; CONTENT analysis; CLUSTER analysis (Statistics); PSYCHOLOGICAL distress; CUSTODY of children; BEHAVIOR modification; MOTHER-child relationship
- Publication
Violence Against Women, 2024, Vol 30, Issue 1, p101
- ISSN
1077-8012
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/10778012231205586