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- Title
- The Elmcrest Project: an evaluation of group therapeutic techniques in developing resiliency in children who have been exposed to women abuse in the home
- Contributors
- Gail Michelle Gustafson (author), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
- Abstract
- The author discusses the impact on children who are exposed to woman abuse in the home. Research indicates that these children demonstrate a high frequency of externalizing and internalizing behavior difficulties. However, not all children who grow up in maritally violent homes are behaviorally disturbed nor do all become involved in abusive relationships as adults. Adjustment problems of children who have been subject to various traumas have been shown to be highly variable. The research on "resilient" children emphasizes the importance of including the protective and vulnerability factors both within the child and his/her environment to explain this difference in response to adversity. This paper suggests that children's resiliency might be enhanced through their participation in a group treatment model of intervention. The Elmcrest Project is presented as such a model and the author's experience co-facilitating the Fall, 1998 "Lunch Group" is described.
- Discipline
- Social Work
- Date added
- 2017-04-11T21:18:51.783Z
- Title
- 'He said he loved me. I wanted to be loved': Young women's experiences of coping with violence in intimate relationships.
- Contributors
- Marina Ursa (author), Corinne Koehn (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
- Abstract
- This study examined lived experiences of coping with physically violent common-law or marital relationships for women 19 to 24 years old. Information was collected from five women through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using Moustakas' transcendental phenomenological approach. Findings revealed that young women reduced stress, engaged in a variety of cognitive strategies, used communication with partners, managed violence, escaped, disclosed or hid evidence of abuse and violence from other people, were supported and hindered from family and friends, and relied on strangers and acquaintances. Findings indicate young women's coping was not about healthy or unhealthy strategies. Whether she remained in the relationship, tried to change dynamics, or left her partner, coping was an attempt to retain personal power and control. Findings highlight the importance of studying both how young women cope and their motivations for coping with abuse and violence. Implications for counsellor education, professional practice, and future research are discussed. --P.ii.
- Discipline
- Education-Counselling
- Date added
- 2017-03-30T17:06:47.951Z
- Title
- A postmodernist art therapy group curriculum for women who have been abused by their male partners
- Contributors
- Sarah E. Milner (author), Trudy Mothus (Thesis advisor), Dennis Procter (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
- Abstract
- No abstract available.
- Discipline
- Education-Counselling
- Date added
- 2017-04-10T22:15:50.115Z
- Title
- Sex-role beliefs of children exposed to wife abuse.
- Contributors
- Kendra Rose Rogers-Calabrese (author), Peter MacMillan (Thesis advisor), University of Northern British Columbia (Degree granting institution)
- Abstract
- No abstract available.
- Discipline
- Education-Counselling
- Date added
- 2017-03-29T17:32:37.352Z