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Macy, Rebecca J.; Rizo, Cynthia F.; Guo, Shenyang; Ermentrout, Dania M. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2013
Increasingly, female victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) are charged with IPV perpetration and mandated by courts or child protective services to receive domestic violence services. A critical need exists for evidence-based interventions targeting the needs of this unique population, but such research is scarce. To address this gap, we…
Descriptors: Females, Victims of Crime, Violence, Intervention
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Macy, Rebecca J.; Nurius, Paula S.; Kernic, Mary A.; Holt, Victoria L. – Social Work Research, 2005
Knowledge about where battered women present for services and the violence, biopsychosocial, and demographic factors associated with their help seeking can provide social workers with guidance in anticipating needs among this portion of their clientele. The authors examined the service contact patterns of a sample of battered women (N = 448)…
Descriptors: Profiles, Females, Social Work, Help Seeking