Examining the Moderating Role of Childhood Attachment for the Relationship between Child Sexual Abuse and Adult Attachment
ConclusionsThe results suggested that secure childhood attachment at least partially protected against negative long-term effects of CSA and fostered healthier intrapersonal and interpersonal adjustment in CSA survivors. (Source: Journal of Family Violence)
Source: Journal of Family Violence - November 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Intimate Partner Violence Victimization During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among a Global Online Sample of Sexual Minority Men
ConclusionOur results demonstrate relatively high levels of reporting IPV victimization during the COVID-19 pandemic among a global sample of SMM. The findings illustrate an increasing need for IPV resources and programs as the pandemic continues to evolve. New technologies such as GSN apps have the potential to deliver confidential and safe IPV screening, services, and resources. (Source: Journal of Family Violence)
Source: Journal of Family Violence - November 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Te Pou: An Indigenous Framework to Evaluate the Inclusion of Family Voice in Family Violence Homicide Reviews
ConclusionsUsing indigenous frameworks and research methods, it is possible to determine how homicide review processes have the potential to embed trauma rather than providing an opportunity for critical reflection and healing. Repositioning homicide reviews will require a reconceptualization of the legislative framework and support system requirements for review panels. (Source: Journal of Family Violence)
Source: Journal of Family Violence - November 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Strategies for Identification of Intimate Partner Violence in Healthcare Settings: Overview of Reviews and Realist Synthesis
ConclusionsFuture work should address how supportive clinical contexts that facilitate effective inquiry, disclosure, and referral to services can be created, acknowledging that what works in one context may not work in another. Included systematic reviews did not permit exploration of how racial and ethnic diversity relate to identification strategies. This is an area requiring urgent research to inform clinical practice. (Source: Journal of Family Violence)
Source: Journal of Family Violence - November 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Toward a Social Ecology of Johnson ’s Types: Exploring Pathways to Situational Couple Violence and Coercive Controlling Violence Among Returning Prisoners
Conclusions: These exploratory findings indicate that local social and structural conditions could promote both SCV and CCV, but via different proximal processes. They suggest that IPV research has much to gain from integrating the distinct theoreti cal and methodological contributions of scholarship on Johnson’s typology and ongoing inquiry into the broader social ecology of IPV. (Source: Journal of Family Violence)
Source: Journal of Family Violence - November 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Patterns of Interpersonal Violence Experience and Their Association with Mental Health and Substance Use Problems among Women with Incarceration Histories: A Multidimensional Longitudinal Study
ConclusionsFindings suggest using a multifaceted interpersonal violence assessment to understand violence victimization and related needs among women with incarceration histories. Future research is needed to explore whether violence victimization experience, incarceration, and substance use/mental health interact over their life course. (Source: Journal of Family Violence)
Source: Journal of Family Violence - November 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse: A Qualitative Exploration of UK Military Personnel and Civilian Partner Experiences
ConclusionThese results highlight the role of cultural norms, as well as the role of emotion dysregulation, poor communication skills and mental health difficulties in explaining and perpetuating abuse within ecological theoretical frameworks of violence among couples within which one or both partners are serving or ex-serving military personnel. (Source: Journal of Family Violence)
Source: Journal of Family Violence - November 4, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Locus of Control, Social Support, and Resilience Among Pregnant Women Experiencing Partner Violence
ConclusionResults suggest that internal LOC and social support are associated with higher resilience and that strong family supports may buffer against the negative consequences typically associated with external LOC. (Source: Journal of Family Violence)
Source: Journal of Family Violence - November 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Parental Psychological Control and Autonomy Support and Associations with Child Maltreatment and Adolescents' Mental Health Problems
ConclusionsMaternal models showed an association of parental childrearing characteristics with adolescent mental health problems directly and indirectly through maltreatment, and preliminary evidence suggests that parental childrearing characteristics may discriminate self-reported maltreatment in adolescents. (Source: Journal of Family Violence)
Source: Journal of Family Violence - November 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Childhood Predictors of Adult Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration and Victimization
ConclusionThis review re-emphasizes the importance of developmental risk factors for adulthood IPV perpetration and victimization, and their role in prevention and intervention efforts. (Source: Journal of Family Violence)
Source: Journal of Family Violence - November 3, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Early Intervention Program in Youth-to-Parent Aggression: Clinically Relevant long-term Changes
ConclusionThe positive changes found indicate the long-term efficacy of the EI-YPA on behavioral variables and clinical symptoms of children and parents, as well as the family conflict perception. This study contributes to increasing the evidence quality of EI-YPA as a potential evidence-based program. (Source: Journal of Family Violence)
Source: Journal of Family Violence - November 2, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

“I Felt as If My Body Wasn’t Mine Anymore:” Ex-Partner Stalking Victims’ Overlapping Experiences of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault
ConclusionThe current study results suggest that it is important to examine a wide scope of victim harms and that helping victims with safety planning in intimate relationships as well as to protect resource losses may be crucial for their recovery  journey. (Source: Journal of Family Violence)
Source: Journal of Family Violence - October 29, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Childhood Exposure to Aggressive Parenting and Trait Anxiety during Emerging Adulthood: Moderating Role of Autonomic Nervous System Activity
ConclusionCoinhibition, or relatively low activity across both systems, may exacerbate the link between aggressive parenting and trait anxiety. This study highlights the importance of considering the interaction effects of multiple physiological systems and environmental context on later psychological functioning. (Source: Journal of Family Violence)
Source: Journal of Family Violence - October 29, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Reporting of Intimate Partner Violence among Male Couples: Cross-Sectional and Serial Dyadic Concordance
ConclusionResearchers should be cognizant of the potential for unpredictable and unreliable IPV reports from GBMSM. Further research on IPV data quality in male couples is needed. (Source: Journal of Family Violence)
Source: Journal of Family Violence - October 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Police and Duty Lawyer Perceptions of Domestic Violence Protection Order Proceedings Involving Parents: Towards Greater System Accountability and Family-Centred Decision-Making
ConclusionFindings raise implications for specialist legal advice and support for parents affected by DV to sit alongside protection order court proceedings. Findings highlight the need for greater system accountability to ensure court-issued protection orders take a family-centred approach that align with parental responsibilities and ensure child and adult victims ’ safety and wellbeing. (Source: Journal of Family Violence)
Source: Journal of Family Violence - October 14, 2022 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research