TY - JOUR
T1 - Mexican immigrant women searching for a solution to intimate partner abuse
T2 - Common breaking points and type of help needed
AU - Kyriakakis, Stavroula
AU - Panchanadeswaran, Subadra
AU - Edmond, Tonya
N1 - Funding Information:
Support for this article was provided by the Center for Latino Family Research.
Publisher Copyright:
© Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - This phenomenological grounded theory study, with a sample 29 Mexican immigrant women affected by intimate abuse and secondary sample of 15 service providers, examines the breaking point for help seeking and the type of help needed. Harm to children, infidelity, and threat to the participant’s life were the most common breaking points. Some didn’t know what type of help was needed, only that they could not solve the problem on their own. Other types included protection (physical and legal) from the abusive partner and economic assistance. The findings have implications for attorneys, domestic violence programs, mental health and social service programs, police, and health care workers.
AB - This phenomenological grounded theory study, with a sample 29 Mexican immigrant women affected by intimate abuse and secondary sample of 15 service providers, examines the breaking point for help seeking and the type of help needed. Harm to children, infidelity, and threat to the participant’s life were the most common breaking points. Some didn’t know what type of help was needed, only that they could not solve the problem on their own. Other types included protection (physical and legal) from the abusive partner and economic assistance. The findings have implications for attorneys, domestic violence programs, mental health and social service programs, police, and health care workers.
KW - Help seeking
KW - Intimate partner violence
KW - Mexican immigrant women
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U2 - 10.1080/15562948.2013.855859
DO - 10.1080/15562948.2013.855859
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84954210262
SN - 1556-2948
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 18
JO - Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
JF - Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies
IS - 1
ER -