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Barata, Paula C.; Stewart, Donna E. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2010
Individual battered women have reported experiencing housing discrimination, but the extent of this problem has not been examined. This research used two experiments and a survey to determine if landlord discrimination could keep women from accessing rental units. In Study 1, a confederate asked 181 landlords about the availability of a rental…
Descriptors: Poverty, Females, Telephone Surveys, Housing
Vameghi, Meroe; Feizzadeh, Ali; Mirabzadeh, Arash; Feizzadeh, Golnaz – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
Women may bear the brunt of domestic violence, but children are also inflicted by the consequences of violence between their parents. We sought to evaluate the lifetime prevalence of exposure to physical violence between parents among some senior secondary school students in Tehran. The study was conducted on senior secondary school students in…
Descriptors: Divorce, Family Violence, Socioeconomic Status, Incidence
Cox, Pamela J.; Finkelstein, Daniel M.; Perez, Victoria E.; Rosenbach, Margo L. – Journal of Family Social Work, 2010
Coalitions are often the means through which communities plan and coordinate services for individuals and address larger environmental issues associated with social problems. Since 2003, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has supported local coordinated community response coalitions (CCRs) in 14 states to prevent intimate partner…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Community Development, Family Violence, Intimacy
Fincham, Frank D.; Beach, Steven R. H. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2010
This review focuses on broad themes characterizing marital research in the past decade. In addition to continuing themes, such as a focus on conflict, violence, and impact on physical and mental health outcomes, we also address the impact of the Healthy Marriage Initiative on marital research and recent advances in methodology. We highlight an…
Descriptors: Marriage, Social Science Research, Conflict, Family Violence
Wallach, Helene S.; Weingram, Ziv; Avitan, Orli – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2010
This study examines the effect of acculturation on the attitudes held by Ethiopian Jews in Israel toward domestic violence (DV). The study findings revealed the following: Ethiopians who immigrated to Israel (n = 31) held more lenient attitudes toward DV than Israeli born Jews (n = 62), which supported the hypothesis that culture influences…
Descriptors: Jews, Family Violence, Foreign Countries, Immigrants
Knutson, John F.; Lawrence, Erika; Taber, Sarah M.; Bank, Lew; DeGarmo, David S. – Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2009
Child exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) is widely acknowledged as a threat to the psycho-social and academic well-being of children. Unfortunately, as reflected in the literature, the specific link between such exposure and childhood outcomes is ambiguous. Based on a review of the literature, this article suggests that this state of…
Descriptors: Children, Family Violence, Family Influence, Definitions
Temple, Jeff R.; Shorey, Ryan C.; Fite, Paula; Stuart, Gregory L.; Le, Vi Donna – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
The prevention of teen dating violence is a major public health priority. However, the dearth of longitudinal studies makes it difficult to develop programs that effectively target salient risk factors. Using a school-based sample of ethnically diverse adolescents, this longitudinal study examined whether substance use (alcohol, marijuana, and…
Descriptors: Risk, Public Health, Adolescents, Whites
Fried, Lise E.; Williams, Sandra; Cabral, Howard; Hacker, Karen – Journal of School Nursing, 2013
The purpose of the study is to assess the relationship between timing of adolescent development and risk factors for suicide. Nationally representative data from the Add Health survey were used. The relationship of sociodemographic characteristics, known risk factors, and physical developmental timing and cognitive developmental style to suicide…
Descriptors: Risk, Suicide, High School Students, Death
Haeseler, Lisa Ann – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2011
Women and children coping with issues of domestic violence abuse urgently require help from early childhood professionals. The U.S. Department of Justice (2008) details these women and children are in peril. This article focuses on female domestic violence abuse. It presents some warning signs of domestic violence. It also offers steps on how to…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Coping, Guides
Williams, Charles A. – Child Welfare, 2011
Youth in foster care face significant life challenges that make it more likely that they will face negative outcomes (i.e., school failure, homelessness, and incarceration). While the reason(s) for out-of-home placement (i.e., family violence, abuse, neglect and/or abandonment) provide some context for negative outcomes, such negative outcomes…
Descriptors: Mentors, Family Violence, Placement, Homeless People
Chemtob, Claude M.; Griffing, Sascha; Tullberg, Erika; Roberts, Elizabeth; Ellis, Peggy – Child Welfare, 2011
The role of parental trauma exposure and related mental health symptoms as risk factors for child maltreatment for parents involved with the child welfare (CW) system has received limited attention. In particular, little is known about the extent to which mothers receiving CW services to prevent maltreatment have experienced trauma and suffered…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Child Welfare, Depression (Psychology), Trauma
Jenkins, Sharon Rae; Mitchell, Jessica L.; Baird, Stephanie; Whitfield, Sarah Roby; Meyer, Heather Lynn – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
Should counselors with interpersonal trauma histories work with similarly traumatized clients? How does the work affect them? Current research is inconsistent. This study examines 101 sexual assault and domestic violence counselors' recalled motivations for trauma work, their reported subjective personal changes, and their secondary and vicarious…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Sexual Abuse, Counselors, Motivation
Laux, John M.; Calmes, Stephanie; Moe, Jeffry L.; Dupuy, Paula J.; Cox, Jane A.; Ventura, Lois A.; Williamson, Celia; Benjamin, Barbaranne J.; Lambert, Eric – Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 2011
This study investigated the mental health (MH) needs of mothers in the criminal justice system using qualitative methods. Identified needs included counseling to help mothers recover from trauma, to define sense of self, and to link them with external support systems. This study confirms and extends the knowledge base regarding the MH status and…
Descriptors: Mothers, Criminals, Institutionalized Persons, Mental Health
Fagan, Abigail A.; Wright, Emily M. – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2011
Objective: This study investigated the long-term effects of exposure to intimate partner violence in the home on adolescent violence and drug use and gender differences in these relationships. Although the general relationship between exposure to IPV and negative outcomes for youth has been demonstrated in past research, gender differences in the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Neighborhoods, Females, Caregivers
Madlock, Paul E.; Westerman, David – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
The current study sought to specifically examine the affect of teasing by way of technology (cyber-teasing) and the importance of the redressive component of a tease. A triangulated approach was used here to gain better insight into the concept of "hurtful" cyber-teasing between romantic partners. A pretheoretical model was developed…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Aggression, Violence, Models