Sandra A Graham-Bermann
Biographic Data
| ID | 4227360 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sandra A Graham-Bermann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sandra A |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham-Bermann |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM-BERMANN S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 165 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The effectiveness of the Moms’ Empowerment Program (MEP) in reducing post-traumatic stress symptoms and depressive symptoms among Iranian mothers surviving intimate partner violence
This study provides strong preliminary evidence that a culturally adapted MEP can be a highly effective intervention for treating the psychological wounds of IPV in a non-Western, Middle Eastern context. The findings underscore the critical importance of culturally sensitive, evidence-based care and support the program's potential for broader global application
Contributions of Violence Exposure and Traumatic Stress Symptoms to Physical Health Outcomes in Incarcerated Adolescents
Violence and traumatic stress negatively affect physical health in youth. Incarcerated adolescents have high rates of violence exposure and health problems, however, few studies have examined medical records and violence exposure in this high-risk population. Self-reported violence exposure and symptoms of stress were collected in 115 incarcerated male adolescents. Medical charts were reviewed for the presence of somatic complaints and chronic he…
Bullying Victimization Among Ukrainian College Students: The Role of Family Communication and Satisfaction, Corporal Punishment and Child Abuse
Bullying involves aggression that is proactive, intentional, and repeated in a relationship with unequal power. We assessed the association of recent bullying victimization with family processes during childhood using standardized measures in a sample of 1008 young adults attending 10 Ukrainian universities in Ukraine. Structural equation modeling was utilized to examine the associations between family communication and satisfaction, childhood co…
The Mental Health of Emerging Adults: Hostile Home Environments and Covid-19
Treating attention problems in children exposed to intimate partner violence: Evaluating the Preschool Kids’ Club
Investigating the effects of the Moms’ Empowerment Program on 8-year traumatic stress symptom trajectories in women with histories of IPV
OBJECTIVE: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a pressing issue, affecting nearly one-third of women in the U.S. over their lifetimes, and has been linked with a number of deleterious outcomes, including the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although IPV is often chronic, few studies have prospectively examined trajectories of PTSD symptoms (PTSS) in this population. The goal of the present study was to assess the effects of the…
Dyadic Profiles of Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Mothers and Children Experiencing Intimate Partner Violence
Latent Profiles of Parenting among Women Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) continues to be a widely prevalent problem and has strong negative consequences for women and children. Parenting effectively (for example, practicing warm and supportive parenting and refraining from the use of physical discipline) may be very difficult for women who have experienced IPV and who have children. At the same time, parenting behaviors such as the use of warm and supportive parenting or the use of phys…
Moms’ Empowerment Program participation associated with improved physical health among Latinas experiencing intimate partner violence
These data suggest that enhancing interpersonal connectedness and access to resources positively affects physical health for Latinas experiencing IPV
Service usage typologies in a clinical sample of trauma-exposed adolescents: A latent class analysis
This study provides new evidence about patterns of service utilization by trauma exposed, treatment seeking adolescents. Most of these adolescents appear to be involved with at least 2 service systems prior to seeking trauma treatment. Higher cumulative exposure to multiple types of trauma was associated with greater service utilization intensity and complexity, but trauma symptomatology was not. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights…
Posttraumatic stress disorder in Latina women: Examining the efficacy of the Moms’ Empowerment Program
This adaptation of a program designed to reduce problems associated with experiencing IPV addressed several mental health treatment needs for Latinas, particularly the need for services in Spanish. These findings demonstrate that it is possible to tailor current treatment programs for IPV in ways that are both effective and culturally sensitive. (PsycINFO Database Record
Patterns of Adjustment among Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence: A Person-Centered Approach
Conflict Appraisals in a Multiethnic Sample of Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and their Social, School, and Activities Competence: Latent Profiles and Correlates
An Efficacy Trial of an Intervention Program for Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
Childhood Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Adult Mental Health Problems: Relationships with Gender and Age of Exposure
The effect of an evidence-based intervention on women’s exposure to intimate partner violence
This study tested the effectiveness of an evidence-based intervention for reducing women's exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV). One-hundred and twenty women who had experienced IPV in the last 2 years were assigned to a treatment or comparison group condition using a sequential assignment paradigm. Treatment group participants completed a 10-session evidence-based intervention, the Mom's Empowerment Program, designed to treat common menta…
In-Home Social Networks and Positive Adjustment in Children Witnessing Intimate Partner Violence
Evidence suggests that social support may act as a potential protective factor for psychological maladjustment, but few studies have examined the social support networks of young children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV). The present study examined the in-home networks for 120 preschool-age children who were recently exposed to male-to-female IPV. Results indicated that larger in-home networks were associated with fewer child internaliz…
Predicting Shelter Residence in Women Experiencing Recent Intimate Partner Violence
This study sought to determine factors associated with shelter residence in women with recent histories of intimate partner violence (IPV). The sample included 113 women, approximately half of whom resided in a shelter over the past year. Participating women provided demographic information and completed standardized measures of IPV, trauma, and depression. Ethnicity, income, housing stability, and mental health, but not violence exposure, differ…
Intimate Partner Violence and Child Adjustment: Moderation by Father Contact
Inconsistencies in Mothers’ and Group Therapists’ Evaluations of Resilience in Preschool Children who Live in Households with Intimate Partner Violence
Physical Health in Preschool Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
How intimate partner violence affects children: Developmental research, case studies, and evidence-based intervention.
Researchers have estimated that 15 million American children are exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) each year, with 7 million exposed to severe violence in their homes. The past decade has seen a surge in research and interventions for such children. We now know that IPV exposure affects children's physical health, social and emotional behavior, cognitive functioning, and neurobiological and relational development. Furthermore, a number o…
How intimate partner violence affects children: Developmental Research, Case Studies, and Evidence-Based Intervention
Factors discriminating among profiles of resilience and psychopathology in children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV)
Parenting in Battered Women: The Effects of Domestic Violence on Women and Their Children
Can Women Cope: A Gender Analysis of Theories of Coping with Stress
In this article, various feminist theories are used to critique selected psychological theories of coping with stress, a reformulated coping theory is outlined, and recommendations for future research are made. To date, theories of coping often portray women as less able copers than the samples of men with whom they are compared. A reformulated theory, based on different women's experiences, explicitly examines the role of social forces (sexism, …
Mothers' Perceptions of the Impact of Woman Abuse on Their Parenting
Previous studies have examined the effects of domestic violence on women's parenting solely through questionnaire data. The current study, consistent with feminist theory, examines women's narratives about parenting in domestic violence situations through a semistructured interview. Thematic analysis of these interviews revealed that most women believed that their parenting was affected by their partner's violence. Interestingly, women reported n…
Childhood Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Adult Mental Health Problems: Relationships with Gender and Age of Exposure
Traumatic Events and Maternal Education as Predictors of Verbal Ability for Preschool Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
Ecological Predictors of Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Caucasian and Ethnic Minority Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
Traumatic stress symptoms were assessed for 218 children ages 5 to 13 following exposure to intimate partner violence: 33% of Caucasian and 17% of minority children were diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder. A risk and protective factors model was used to predict traumatic stress symptoms. For Caucasian children, the best predictors were mothers' mental health and low self-esteem. For minority children, the amount of violence, mothers' lo…
Predicting Shelter Residence in Women Experiencing Recent Intimate Partner Violence
This study sought to determine factors associated with shelter residence in women with recent histories of intimate partner violence (IPV). The sample included 113 women, approximately half of whom resided in a shelter over the past year. Participating women provided demographic information and completed standardized measures of IPV, trauma, and depression. Ethnicity, income, housing stability, and mental health, but not violence exposure, differ…
Exploring the Relationship Between Positive Work Experiences and Women's Sense of Self in the Context of Partner Abuse
In this study we examined the relationships among partner abuse, work quality, and women's sense of self. In particular, we explored the potential for women's work to serve as an alternative source of feedback for the self in the context of partner abuse. The sample consisted of 100 working women who reported experiencing a range of partner abuse. Relationships among partner abuse, work quality, and three self constructs were tested using multiva…
Intimate Partner Violence and Child Adjustment: Moderation by Father Contact
Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and their Social, School, and Activities Competence: Latent Profiles and Correlates
Physical Health in Preschool Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
In-Home Social Networks and Positive Adjustment in Children Witnessing Intimate Partner Violence
Evidence suggests that social support may act as a potential protective factor for psychological maladjustment, but few studies have examined the social support networks of young children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV). The present study examined the in-home networks for 120 preschool-age children who were recently exposed to male-to-female IPV. Results indicated that larger in-home networks were associated with fewer child internaliz…
Woman Abuse and Self-Affirmation: Influences on Women's Self-Esteem
The authors hypothesized that self-affirmation would buffer the impact of woman abuse on self-esteem. Participants were 60 women who experienced physical violence during the past year and 60 women who did not experience physical violence in the past 12 months. The women completed scales measuring physical violence, psychological maltreatment, self-affirmation, and self-esteem. Both psychological maltreatment and self-affirmation significantly pre…
Conflict Appraisals in a Multiethnic Sample of Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
Children in homeless families: Risks to mental health and development.
Can Women Cope: A Gender Analysis of Theories of Coping with Stress
In this article, various feminist theories are used to critique selected psychological theories of coping with stress, a reformulated coping theory is outlined, and recommendations for future research are made. To date, theories of coping often portray women as less able copers than the samples of men with whom they are compared. A reformulated theory, based on different women's experiences, explicitly examines the role of social forces (sexism, …
Building an empowerment policy paradigm: Self-reported strengths of homeless mothers
Self-reported strengths and goals of a sample of 64 mothers of young children residing in a temporary shelter for homeless families, were documented. The strengths most frequently reported included ability to take action, parental competence, and determination in the face of stress. Program and policy implications of these positive attributes of homeless mothers are discussed
Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Children of Battered Women
The posttraumatic stress symptoms of 64 children ages 7 to 12 were assessed by their mothers, who had experienced emotional and physical abuse during the past year. A measure of child symptoms based on DSM-IV criteria was used. Of the children exposed to violence, 13% qualified for a complete posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) diagnosis. However, 52% suffered from intrusive and unwanted remembering of the traumatic event(s), 19% displayed traum…
Surviving poverty: Stress and coping in the lives of housed and homeless mothers
Stress, coping, and depressed mood were examined in a sample of 64 homeless mothers and a comparison group of 59 housed low-income mothers. Homeless mothers reported significantly higher levels of stress and depression, as well as greater use of avoidant and active-cognitive coping strategies, than did the housed mothers. Within-group analyses revealed an association between greater use of avoidant strategies and higher levels of reported depress…
Mothers' Perceptions of the Impact of Woman Abuse on Their Parenting
Previous studies have examined the effects of domestic violence on women's parenting solely through questionnaire data. The current study, consistent with feminist theory, examines women's narratives about parenting in domestic violence situations through a semistructured interview. Thematic analysis of these interviews revealed that most women believed that their parenting was affected by their partner's violence. Interestingly, women reported n…
Woman Abuse and Self-Affirmation: Influences on Women's Self-Esteem
The authors hypothesized that self-affirmation would buffer the impact of woman abuse on self-esteem. Participants were 60 women who experienced physical violence during the past year and 60 women who did not experience physical violence in the past 12 months. The women completed scales measuring physical violence, psychological maltreatment, self-affirmation, and self-esteem. Both psychological maltreatment and self-affirmation significantly pre…
Parenting in Battered Women: The Effects of Domestic Violence on Women and Their Children
Exploring the Relationship Between Positive Work Experiences and Women's Sense of Self in the Context of Partner Abuse
In this study we examined the relationships among partner abuse, work quality, and women's sense of self. In particular, we explored the potential for women's work to serve as an alternative source of feedback for the self in the context of partner abuse. The sample consisted of 100 working women who reported experiencing a range of partner abuse. Relationships among partner abuse, work quality, and three self constructs were tested using multiva…
Ecological Predictors of Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Caucasian and Ethnic Minority Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
Traumatic stress symptoms were assessed for 218 children ages 5 to 13 following exposure to intimate partner violence: 33% of Caucasian and 17% of minority children were diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder. A risk and protective factors model was used to predict traumatic stress symptoms. For Caucasian children, the best predictors were mothers' mental health and low self-esteem. For minority children, the amount of violence, mothers' lo…
Community-based intervention for children exposed to intimate partner violence: An efficacy trial.
A community-based intervention program was tested with 181 children ages 6-12 and their mothers exposed to intimate partner violence during the past year. A sequential assignment procedure allocated participants to 3 conditions: child-only intervention, child-plus-mother intervention (CM), and a wait-list comparison. A 2-level hierarchical linear model consisting of repeated observations within individuals and individuals assigned to conditions w…
Toward assessing traumatic events and stress symptoms in preschool children from low-income families
Traumatic events can seriously disrupt the development of preschool children. Yet few studies capture developmentally specific examples of traumas and the expression of distress for this age group. Mothers and teachers of 138 preschoolers from low-income families were interviewed about traumatic events and completed a new measure assessing their child's traumatic stress symptoms. They reported traumatic events as the death of a person, death of a…
Factors discriminating among profiles of resilience and psychopathology in children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV)
Traumatic Events and Maternal Education as Predictors of Verbal Ability for Preschool Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
How intimate partner violence affects children: Developmental research, case studies, and evidence-based intervention.
Researchers have estimated that 15 million American children are exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) each year, with 7 million exposed to severe violence in their homes. The past decade has seen a surge in research and interventions for such children. We now know that IPV exposure affects children's physical health, social and emotional behavior, cognitive functioning, and neurobiological and relational development. Furthermore, a number o…
How intimate partner violence affects children: Developmental Research, Case Studies, and Evidence-Based Intervention
Inconsistencies in Mothers’ and Group Therapists’ Evaluations of Resilience in Preschool Children who Live in Households with Intimate Partner Violence
Physical Health in Preschool Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
Predicting Shelter Residence in Women Experiencing Recent Intimate Partner Violence
This study sought to determine factors associated with shelter residence in women with recent histories of intimate partner violence (IPV). The sample included 113 women, approximately half of whom resided in a shelter over the past year. Participating women provided demographic information and completed standardized measures of IPV, trauma, and depression. Ethnicity, income, housing stability, and mental health, but not violence exposure, differ…
Intimate Partner Violence and Child Adjustment: Moderation by Father Contact
The effect of an evidence-based intervention on women’s exposure to intimate partner violence
This study tested the effectiveness of an evidence-based intervention for reducing women's exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV). One-hundred and twenty women who had experienced IPV in the last 2 years were assigned to a treatment or comparison group condition using a sequential assignment paradigm. Treatment group participants completed a 10-session evidence-based intervention, the Mom's Empowerment Program, designed to treat common menta…
In-Home Social Networks and Positive Adjustment in Children Witnessing Intimate Partner Violence
Evidence suggests that social support may act as a potential protective factor for psychological maladjustment, but few studies have examined the social support networks of young children exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV). The present study examined the in-home networks for 120 preschool-age children who were recently exposed to male-to-female IPV. Results indicated that larger in-home networks were associated with fewer child internaliz…
An Efficacy Trial of an Intervention Program for Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence
Childhood Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Adult Mental Health Problems: Relationships with Gender and Age of Exposure
Posttraumatic stress disorder in Latina women: Examining the efficacy of the Moms’ Empowerment Program
This adaptation of a program designed to reduce problems associated with experiencing IPV addressed several mental health treatment needs for Latinas, particularly the need for services in Spanish. These findings demonstrate that it is possible to tailor current treatment programs for IPV in ways that are both effective and culturally sensitive. (PsycINFO Database Record
Psychology (36 works) · Medicine (33 works) · Clinical Psychology (31 works) · Poison control (31 works) · Intimate Partner and Family Violence (29 works) · Domestic violence (28 works) · Suicide prevention (26 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (23 works) · Injury prevention (23 works) · Developmental psychology (22 works)