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Community Domestic Violence Survivors
and Psychosocial Health Change in an Emergency Domestic
Violence Shelter.
Lewis, C.S., Griffing, S., Chu, M., Sage,R.E., Jospitre,
T., Madry,L. & Primm, B.J.
Presented at the college on Problems of Drug Dependence
in Puerto Rico (June 2004)
This evaluation study investigates pre-and post differences
in psy- chological functioning among predominately, minority
inner-city domestic violence(DV) Survivors at an emergency
DV shelter.
Participants(N=63) completed baseline and 30-day follow-up
structured interviews. As expected upon arrival, mean
depression scores far exceeded criteria indicating depressive
symptomatology. The results show a significant decrease
in depressive symptoms( p< .0001) and an increase in
self-esteem at 30-day follow-up (p<.0001). Clinical
and empirical implications of the findings are discussed. |
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