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Lee, Helen; Crowne, Sarah; Faucetta, Kristen; Hughes, Rebecca – Administration for Children & Families, 2016
The Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation-Strong Start (MIHOPE-Strong Start) is the largest random assignment study to date to examine the effectiveness of home visiting services on improving birth outcomes and infant and maternal health care use for expectant mothers. The study includes local home visiting programs that use one of…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Home Visits, Early Intervention
Yamawaki, Niwako; Ochoa-Shipp, Monica; Pulsipher, Craig; Harlos, Andrew; Swindler, Scott – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
Researchers in this study examined the attitudes toward domestic violence, the victim, and her perpetrator. A total of 194 participants were randomly assigned to one of 4 hypothetical scenarios to evaluate how observers' perceptions were influenced by their own sex and myths about domestic violence, by the victim's decision to return to the…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Victims of Crime, Females, Interpersonal Relationship
Ackerman, Jeffrey M. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
In prior research, Ackerman and Field (2011) found that intimate partner violence (IPV) affects the relationship satisfaction of females more than the relationship satisfaction of males. The current research replicated those findings on a different sample of men and women. In addition to confirming past findings, it also found that gendered…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Family Violence, Interpersonal Relationship, Victims
Frye, Victoria; Paul, Margaret M.; Todd, Mary-Justine; Lewis, Veronica; Cupid, Malik; Coleman, Jane; Salmon, Christina; O'Campo, Patricia – Journal of Community Psychology, 2012
How the neighborhood environment relates to intimate partner violence against women has been studied using theories applied originally to general violence. Extending social disorganization and collective efficacy theories, they apply a traditional measure informal social control that does not reflect behaviors specific to partner violence. We…
Descriptors: Females, Prevention, Intervention, Family Violence
Goulter, Natalie; Kimonis, Eva R.; Hawes, Samuel W.; Stepp, Stephanie; Hipwell, Alison E. – Developmental Psychology, 2017
Callous-unemotional (CU) traits have proven important for designating children and adolescents showing a pattern of particularly severe, stable, and aggressive antisocial behaviors (Frick, Ray, Thornton, & Kahn, 2014). Individuals with secondary CU traits represent a subpopulation that are distinguished from those with primary CU traits by…
Descriptors: Females, Anxiety, Personality Traits, Mental Health
Chaney, Denise M. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This qualitative Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) study explored the subjectivity of the phenomenon of homelessness among women with children. The study examined the perceived critical incidents homeless women with children ascribe to their homelessness alongside the perceptions held regarding the accessibility of available resources…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Females, One Parent Family, Children
Davies, Patrick T.; Cicchetti, Dante; Hentges, Rochelle F.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L. – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Guided by evolutionary game theory (Korte, Koolhaas, Wingfield, & McEwen, 2005), this study aimed to identify the genetic precursors and the psychosocial sequelae of inhibited temperament in a sociodemographically disadvantaged and racially diverse sample (N = 201) of 2-year-old children who experienced elevated levels of domestic violence.…
Descriptors: Personality, Inhibition, Genetics, Evolution
Gregory, Deidre – BU Journal of Graduate Studies in Education, 2013
Canada's Aboriginal people connect history to their loss of identity, grounded in Nation based languages and beliefs. Recovering from colonization requires healing wounds that festered during residential school and the 60's scoop. Treating family violence and addictions is more than an individual reality for many of today's Aboriginals. It is a…
Descriptors: Canada Natives, Foreign Countries, Trauma, Psychological Patterns
Roy, Valerie; Lindsay, Jocelyn; Dallaire, Louis-Francois – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2013
This article describes a study that explored the use of mixed-gender co-facilitation in intimate partner violence groups, especially regarding its potential for gender role socialization. Using an interpretive approach, interviews with men from different mixed-gender co-facilitated groups in Canada were analyzed, with a focus on the men's…
Descriptors: Group Counseling, Counselors, Facilitators (Individuals), Males
Mullings, Delores V. – World Journal of Education, 2015
This project engaged students, practitioners, and educators from University of Labor and Social Affairs, Cau Giay District, Hanoi and Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, in a cross-cultural distance learning and teaching collaboration. Two groups met simultaneously through Skype videoconferencing to discuss and learn about field supervision and…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Distance Education, Videoconferencing, College Students
Desai, Maharaj – Educational Perspectives, 2016
This paper is based on the experiences of the author as a student, educator, and Filipina/o. The author explores the multiple traumas in the community that he grew up in that impacted his experiences as well as those of his family and the connection of those traumas to colonialism. The author also examines the possibilities for healing from those…
Descriptors: Foreign Policy, Trauma, Filipino Americans, Psychology
Pyscher, Tracey; Lozenski, Brian D. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2014
This article illuminates the ways in which resistant youth challenge attempts toward cultural homogenization within public school systems. We trace how youth from historical and lived traumatic experiences such as African American, Native American, and youth with histories of domestic violence, navigate the dominant narrative of pity and…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Minority Group Students, Educational Attitudes, African American Students
Kothari, Catherine L.; Rhodes, Karin V.; Wiley, James A.; Fink, Jeffrey; Overholt, Scott; Dichter, Melissa E.; Marcus, Steven C.; Cerulli, Catherine – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
The objective of this study was to measure the efficacy of protection orders (POs) in reducing assault and injury-related outcomes using a matched comparison group and tracking outcomes over time. This study was a retrospective review of police, emergency department, family court, and prosecutor administrative records for a cohort of…
Descriptors: Injuries, Family Violence, Longitudinal Studies, Intimacy
Stewart, Cindy; Moore, Todd; Crone, Travis; DeFreitas, Stacie Craft; Rhatigan, Deborah – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2012
The present study examined the effects of perpetrator sex category, victim confrontation, observer sex category, and observer attitudes on attributions of blame and behavioral stability for partner violence. Data were collected from 728 college-aged students enrolled at 2 universities in the United States. Results demonstrated that males and…
Descriptors: Evidence, Family Violence, Victims, Universities
Barnes, Jennifer Clare; Summers, S. J. – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2012
This paper describes the process of couple therapy with a client who has a mild learning disability and cerebral palsy, and her partner, who also has cerebral palsy (all information has been anonymised and pseudonyms are used throughout). Informed consent was gained from both individuals for the purposes of writing about their case. Therapy…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Physical Disabilities, Psychotherapy, Cerebral Palsy