title: Unique Outcomes in the Narratives of Young Adults Who Experienced Dating Violence as Adolescents.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Narrative therapy, an approach based on the reauthoring of life narratives, may be a useful psychotherapeutic strategy for youth who have experienced dating violence.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  A cornerstone of narrative therapy is the concept of unique outcomes, which are moments that stand in contrast to a client's otherwise problem-saturated narratives. The purpose of this study was to identify and categorize unique outcomes embedded in narratives about adolescent dating violence.
  
  
  METHODS
  Text units representing unique outcomes were extracted from transcripts of interviews with 88 young adults who had experienced dating violence and were categorized using standard content analytic techniques.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Six categories of unique outcome stories were identified: facing-facts stories, standing-up-for-myself stories, cutting-it-off stories, cutting-'em-loose stories, getting-back-on-track stories, and changing-it-up stories.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This typology of unique outcomes can inform clinicians who work with clients who have a history of adolescent dating violence.
authors.affiliation: Claire Burke Draucker, RN, PhD, FAAN, Indiana University, School of Nursing, Indianapolis, IN, USA cdraucke@iu.edu.
authors.forename: Claire Burke
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Draucker
authors.affiliation: Carolyn Smith, PhD, RN, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Carolyn
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: Jill Mazurczyk, MPH, Riley Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
authors.forename: Jill
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mazurczyk
authors.affiliation: Destini Thomas, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Destini
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.affiliation: Patricia Ramirez, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ramirez
authors.affiliation: Kim McNealy, BSN, RN, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: McNealy
authors.affiliation: Jade Thomas, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
authors.forename: Jade
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.affiliation: Donna S. Martsolf, RN, PhD, FAAN, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Donna S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Martsolf
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D003380:Courtship / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D000066511:Intimate Partner Violence / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D033262:Narration; D062525:Narrative Therapy; D009820:Ohio; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: adolescent dating violence; dating violence; teen dating violence; unique outcomes