The attenuating effect of empowerment on IPV-related PTSD symptoms in battered women living in domestic violence shelters

Violence Against Women

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 102-117

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

^a Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Cente   (United States)

^b St Elizabeths Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

empowerment; intimate partner violence; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BATTERED WOMAN; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HOUSING; HUMAN; MALE; PARTNER VIOLENCE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUALITY;

BATTERED WOMEN; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HOUSING; HUMANS; MALE; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); SEXUAL PARTNERS; SPOUSE ABUSE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84863290766     PISSN: 10778012     EISSN: 15528448     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077801212437348     Document Type: Article

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