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Counseling Intimate Partner Abuse Survivors: Effective and Ineffective Interventions
Author(s) -
Leedom Liane J.,
Andersen Donna,
Glynn Mary Ann,
Barone Meredith L.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/jcad.12285
Subject(s) - helpfulness , alliance , clinical psychology , psychology , psychological intervention , psychotherapist , family therapy , domestic violence , qualitative research , psychiatry , medicine , suicide prevention , poison control , social psychology , medical emergency , social science , sociology , political science , law
This study obtained feedback from intimate partner abuse survivors ( N = 104) regarding helpful and unhelpful aspects of therapy. The survivors’ narrative accounts and answers to quantitative questions were subjected to quantitative and qualitative analysis. Results suggest that survivors sought therapy to understand themselves and the abuse they endured. Clinicians’ diagnoses of codependency or assertions that survivors chose the relationship weakened the therapeutic alliance and reduced the perceived helpfulness of therapy.