title: Differential therapeutic outcomes of community-based group interventions for women and children exposed to intimate partner violence.
abstract: Two community-based group therapies, emotion focused versus goal oriented, are compared among women exposed to intimate partner violence (n = 46) and their children ( n = 48) aged between 6 and 12 years. A series of repeated measures analyses are employed to evaluate the effects of time from baseline to postintervention following random assignment. Main and treatment effects for women provide support for the relative effectiveness in increasing quality of social support in the emotion-focused intervention and in the reduction of both family conflict and alcohol use for the goal-oriented intervention.
authors.affiliation: University of Oklahoma, OK, USA. paulamcwhirter@ou.edu
authors.forename: Paula T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: McWhirter
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D018585:Battered Women / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy; D003156:Community Mental Health Services; D004644:Emotions; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005863:Gestalt Theory; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012647:Self-Assessment; D012944:Social Support; D015206:Southwestern United States; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult