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A meta-analysis on domestic violence interventions was conducted to determine overall effectiveness of mental health programs involving women and children in joint treatment. These interventions were further analyzed to determine whether outcomes are differentially affected based on the outcome measure employed. To date, no meta-analyses have been published on domestic violence victim intervention efficacy. The 17 investigations that met study criteria yielded findings indicating that domestic violence interventions have a large effect size (d = .812), which decreases to a medium effect size when compared to control groups (d = .518). Effect sizes were assessed to determine whether treatment differed according to the focus of the outcome measure employed: (a) external stress (behavioral problems, aggression, or alcohol use); (b) psychological adjustment (depression, anxiety, or happiness); (c) self-concept (self-esteem, perceived competence, or internal locus of control); (d) social adjustment (popularity, loneliness, or cooperativeness); (e) family relations (mother-child relations, affection, or quality of interaction); and (f) maltreatment events (reoccurrence of violence, return to partner). Results reveal that domestic violence interventions across all outcome categories yield effects in the medium to large range for both internalized and externalized symptomatology. Implications for greater awareness and support for domestic violence treatment and programming are discussed.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy , Domestic Violence/psychology , Adult , Child , Female , Humans , Intimate Partner Violence/psychology , Male , Mother-Child Relations , Social Support , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
Exploring risk factors and profiles of intimate partner violence in other countries provides information about whether existing theories of this phenomenon hold consistent in different cultural settings. This study will present results of a regression analysis involving domestic violence among Mexican women (n = 83,159). Significant predictors of domestic violence among Mexican women included age, number of children in the household, income, education, self-esteem, family history of abuse, and controlling behavior of the husband. Women's employment status was not a significant predictor when all variables were included in the model; however, when controlling behavior of the husband was withdrawn from the model, women's employment status was a significant predictor of domestic violence toward women. Results from this research indicate that spousal controlling behavior may serve as a mediator of the predictive relationship between women's employment status and domestic violence among Mexican women. Findings provide support for continued exploration of the factors that mediate experiences of domestic violence among women worldwide.
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Battered Women/psychology , Employment/psychology , Interpersonal Relations , Spouse Abuse/economics , Spouse Abuse/psychology , Adult , Battered Women/statistics & numerical data , Coercion , Female , Humans , Mexico/ethnologyABSTRACT
Two community-based group therapies, emotion focused versus goal oriented, are compared among women exposed to intimate partner violence (n = 46) and their children ( n = 48) aged between 6 and 12 years. A series of repeated measures analyses are employed to evaluate the effects of time from baseline to postintervention following random assignment. Main and treatment effects for women provide support for the relative effectiveness in increasing quality of social support in the emotion-focused intervention and in the reduction of both family conflict and alcohol use for the goal-oriented intervention.
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Adaptation, Psychological , Battered Women/psychology , Family Therapy/methods , Parent-Child Relations , Spouse Abuse/prevention & control , Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/rehabilitation , Adolescent , Adult , Alcohol Drinking/prevention & control , Alcohol Drinking/psychology , Analysis of Variance , Child , Cognitive Behavioral Therapy , Community Mental Health Services , Emotions , Female , Gestalt Theory , Goals , Humans , Interpersonal Relations , Male , Middle Aged , Self-Assessment , Social Support , Southwestern United States , Spouse Abuse/psychology , Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic/etiology , Treatment Outcome , Young AdultABSTRACT
Trends in adolescent drug use are encouraging and suggest the importance of preventative programs for youth. Yet, among those who become involved with illicit substances and seek treatment, only a fraction report positive outcomes. This article describes an approach to enhance adolescent participation in substance abuse treatment. Aspects of the transtheoretical model are integrated into a treatment program designed to meet the unique developmental needs of adolescent alcohol and marijuana abusers. The result is a treatment that better engages adolescents in participation, thereby increasing the likelihood for treatment success.
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Alcoholism/rehabilitation , Marijuana Abuse/rehabilitation , Motivation , Patient Acceptance of Health Care/psychology , Substance-Related Disorders/rehabilitation , Adolescent , Alcoholism/psychology , Combined Modality Therapy , Education , Family Therapy , Female , Humans , Male , Marijuana Abuse/psychology , Needs Assessment , Patient Participation/psychology , Peer Group , Pregnancy , Pregnancy in Adolescence/psychology , Program Development , Residential Treatment , Secondary Prevention , Social Facilitation , Substance-Related Disorders/psychology , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
En el campo del tratamiento de adultos con problemas de adicción, suele considerarse la motivación del cliente para el cambio.(1) Actualmente este aspecto motivacional, también está siendo ampliamente destacado en el tratamiento para adolescentes que abusan de sustancias.. Este artículo describe los componentes de un programa de tratamiento para adolescentes, basado en el modelo transteórico, y enfatiza las principales razones por las que la motivación adolescente para el cambio es fundamental para un tratamiento exitoso. En el modelo transteórico, cada etapa de disponibilidad para el cambio es asociada a distintas estrategias de consejería, las que se aplican según datos empíricos que las muestran como adecuadas para el tratamiento de adolescentes. El programa de tratamiento descrito ha sido diseñado para ayudar a los clínicos al proveer de opciones más efectivas y apropiadas para el tratamiento de adolescentes que abusan de sustancias
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Humans , Adolescent , Adult , Models, Educational , Substance-Related Disorders/therapy , Awareness , MotivationABSTRACT
En el campo del tratamiento de adultos con problemas de adicción, suele considerarse la motivación del cliente para el cambio.(1) Actualmente este aspecto motivacional, también está siendo ampliamente destacado en el tratamiento para adolescentes que abusan de sustancias.. Este artículo describe los componentes de un programa de tratamiento para adolescentes, basado en el modelo transteórico, y enfatiza las principales razones por las que la motivación adolescente para el cambio es fundamental para un tratamiento exitoso. En el modelo transteórico, cada etapa de disponibilidad para el cambio es asociada a distintas estrategias de consejería, las que se aplican según datos empíricos que las muestran como adecuadas para el tratamiento de adolescentes. El programa de tratamiento descrito ha sido diseñado para ayudar a los clínicos al proveer de opciones más efectivas y apropiadas para el tratamiento de adolescentes que abusan de sustancias (AU)
