title: Improving services to African American survivors of IPV: from the voices of recipients of culturally specific services.
abstract: Researchers have found that many services designed to assist survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) take a mainstream, color-blind approach to their interventions. Several authors have indicated a need for culturally specific IPV interventions to adequately address the issue of IPV within the African American community. This exploratory study was designed to ascertain, from African American survivors, what their experiences were with mainstream IPV interventions and how their experience with a culturally specific domestic violence agency was different from those experiences. Overall, women described mostly problematic experiences with mainstream services and positive experiences with the culturally specific agency.
authors.affiliation: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Tameka L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Gillum
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008875:Middle Aged; D015146:Midwestern United States; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012944:Social Support; D012945:Social Values; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D018454:Spouses / Q000208:ethnology; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*