Intimate partner violence and barriers to mental health care for ethnically diverse populations of women

Trauma, Violence, and Abuse

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 358-374

  Rodríguez, Michael ^a   Valentine, Jeanette M ^a   Son, John B ^a   Muhammad, Marjani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barriers; Domestic violence; Intimate partner violence; Mental health care; Women

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATTERED WOMAN; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; COUNSELING; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

BATTERED WOMEN; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; COUNSELING; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE; UNITED STATES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 70350233297     PISSN: 15248380     EISSN: 15528324     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524838009339756     Document Type: Article

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