Postshelter Adjustment of Children from Violent Families

Autor/inn/en	Jarvis, Kelly L.; Novaco, Raymond W.
Titel	Postshelter Adjustment of Children from Violent Families
Quelle	In: Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 21 (2006) 8, S.1046-1062 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0886-2605
DOI	10.1177/0886260506290205
Schlagwörter	Children; Family Violence; Females; Emergency Shelters; Interviews; Child Behavior; Depression (Psychology); Behavior Problems; Adjustment (to Environment); Child Abuse; Measures (Individuals) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Weibliches Geschlecht; Notunterkunft; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Abuse of children; Abuse; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Messdaten
Abstract	Few studies have examined the adjustment of battered women and their children after exiting domestic violence shelters. Participants were 62 women who had endured severe partner abuse, completed a shelter program with their children, and resided in the community for at least 6 months. Field interviews concerned mothers' and children's abuse histories and included measures of maternal depression, maternal trauma, and child behavior problems. Nearly all women had lived violence free since shelter exit. Child internalizing behaviors were associated with direct abuse, maternal depression, and shelter program. Externalizing behaviors were related to maternal depression and shelter program. Neither severity of interparental violence nor maternal trauma symptoms was related to child behavior problems. Mothers' family-of-origin abuse predicted current satisfaction with child functioning, beyond the effects of maternal depression and child behavioral problems. Findings suggest a need for postshelter therapeutic services and further research addressing the adjustment of such families. (Contains 2 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10