Women Contributions in Human Development: A Study at Women’s Shelters in Selangor

2002 ◽

Vol 17 (5) ◽

pp. 555-567 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

Peter Mertin ◽

Philip B. Mohr

Keyword(s):

Domestic Violence ◽

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽

Posttraumatic Stress ◽

Stress Disorder ◽

South Australia ◽

Women's Shelters ◽

Women’S Shelters ◽

Effects On Children ◽

Anxiety Depression ◽

Sleep Difficulties

In recent years, evidence has emerged of the presence of posttrauma symptoms in children from backgrounds of domestic violence. The present study examined the incidence and correlates of posttrauma symptoms in 56 children of mothers who had been residents in women’s shelters in Adelaide, South Australia. The most frequently endorsed symptoms among this sample of children were being troubled by distressing thoughts, conscious avoidance, hypervigilance, and sleep difficulties. Twenty percent of children met the criteria for a diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Children meeting full PTSD criteria scored significantly higher on measures of anxiety, depression, and dissociation. Results support the use of a posttrauma framework for understanding the effects on children of living with domestic violence.

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Integration of Primary Health-Care Services in Women’s Shelters: A Scoping Review

Trauma Violence & Abuse ◽

10.1177/1524838018781105 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 610-623 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Tara Mantler ◽

Kimberley T. Jackson ◽

Edmund J. Walsh

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Primary Health Care ◽

Scoping Review ◽

Health Care Services ◽

Health Consequences ◽

Women's Shelters ◽

Care Services ◽

Primary Health ◽

Primary Health Care Services ◽

Women’S Shelters

Women who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) have significant detrimental physical and mental health consequences associated with the violence as well as numerous barriers to health-care and social service utilization. Service integration offers a solution to help support women who have experienced violence overcome negative health consequences as well as barriers to system navigation and use. The purpose of this scoping review was to examine research activity pertaining to IPV and primary health-care and women’s shelters integration. Namely, the aim was to determine the extent, range, and nature of research related to the effects of integrating primary health-care services and women’s shelters. Nineteen sources were identified as potentially relevant from four electronic databases, with four articles meeting the inclusion criteria of integration of primary health-care and women’s shelter services where outcomes were presented related to the efficacy of primary health-care received and integration. Numerical analysis revealed considerable homogeneity among articles in terms of methodological approaches, patient populations, and type of integration. Inductive thematic content analysis revealed three themes that resulted from integration: (1) increased access to and acceptability of services, (2) bridge back to health-care, and (3) decreasing future health-care burden. The findings from this scoping review represent a first attempt to summarize the literature, indicate a need for additional research, and suggest implications for practice.

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Othering Honor-Based Violence: The Perspective of Antiviolence Operators in Northern Italy

Human Organization ◽

10.17730/0018-7259.78.4.325 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 78 (4) ◽

pp. 325-334

Author(s):

Marina Della Rocca ◽

Dorothy Louise Zinn

Keyword(s):

Gender Discrimination ◽

Northern Italy ◽

Gender Based Violence ◽

Women's Shelters ◽

Women’S Shelters ◽

Gender Based ◽

And Gender ◽

International Conventions ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship

In recent years, so-called honor-based violence has become a major issue for the operators of the women's shelters in South Tyrol (Northern Italy) that support women who have suffered from domestic violence. The antiviolence operators who work in the women's shelters generally relate this form of violence to the experiences of young migrant-origin women. In this article, we discuss the operators' definitions of honor-based violence, which present a variety of dichotomous categories that reveal a process of othering and evoke the lexicon of the international conventions on gender discrimination and gender-based violence. Indeed, some traces of an essentialist understanding of culture are still recognizable in this lexicon, most of all in the relationship of culture with the concept of honor. We conclude by identifying possible ways to overcome the risk of essentialization in the antiviolence operators' practices, suggesting how to redefine them by incorporating the migrant-origin women's perspectives and stressing the significance of this study for a wider understanding of the women's empowerment in the advocacy work of the women's shelters.

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