It's Not all or Nothing: Women's Differential Use of Help-Seeking Strategies in Response to Intimate Partner Violence.
Purpose: Although the intimate partner violence (IPV) help-seeking literature has expanded, limited research examines help-seeking patterns utilizing a broad range of strategies. We examined classes of help-seeking strategies using the Intimate Partner Violence Strategy Index, which includes 39 help...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Family Violence Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 57 - 75 |
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