The mediating role of empowerment for African American women experiencing intimate partner violence

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 266-272

  Wright, Caroline Vaile ^a   Perez, Sara ^b   Johnson, Dawn M ^b  

^a St Elizabeths Hospital   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

empowerment; intimate partner violence; PTSD; racial ethnic differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651338769     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017470     Document Type: Article

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