Intimate Partner Violence Survivors’ Perspectives on Coping With Family Court Processes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12436973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Julia Bradshaw (0000-0003-0757-2303, University of Toronto), Ellen Gutowski (0000-0001-8314-9078, University of Toronto, corresponding author), Kashoro Nyenyezi (University of Toronto) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 101-125 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-09 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Violence Against Women (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10778012231205586 |
| PMID | 37807804 |
| OpenAlex | W4387440491 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 47 |
Although intimate partner violence (IPV)-exposed mothers report distress during family court proceedings, no known research examines what helps them cope. We analyzed qualitative responses from 214 IPV-exposed mothers to the question of who/what helped during family court. Participants described (a) receiving social support, (b) accessing tools and resources, (c) modifying actions, thoughts, and emotions to adapt to a system that is not trauma-informed, (d) being believed/validated, and (e) managing post-separation family life as helpful. Participants also reported (f) barriers to navigating family law proceedings; a few expressed nothing helped. Findings support a trauma-informed, network-oriented approach to supporting family court-involved survivor mothers
Coping (psychology · Distress · Domestic violence · Family court · Medical emergency · Nothing · Poison control · Political science · Psychiatry · Qualitative research · Social support · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Clinical Psychology · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health · Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
Mental and Physical Health and Intimate Partner Violence against Women
Development of a brief measure of intimate partner violence experiences
A call for a social network-oriented approach to services for survivors of intimate partner violence.
The qualitative content analysis process
Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (Coreq)
Separation Assault in the Context of Postdivorce Parenting
“No Contact, Except . . .”
Recommendations for designing and reviewing qualitative research in psychology
A Systematic Review of Barriers to Formal Help Seeking for Adult Survivors of IPV in the United States, 2005–2019
When Crises Collide
Disclosure of Intimate Partner Violence to Informal Social Support Network Members
Help‐seeking amongst women survivors of domestic violence
Civil Legal Aid and Domestic Violence
Legal systems abuse and coercive control
Power and Control in the Legal System
Paper Abuse”
Experiences With Help Seeking Among Non–Service-Engaged Survivors of IPV
The Roles of Coping and Social Support in Battered Women’s Mental Health
Bringing a Network-Oriented Approach to Domestic Violence Services
I Built My House of Hope
Custody Stalking
It’s an invisible wound’
Domestic violence and high conflict are not the same
Like I’m Invisible”
Abused Mothers’ Safety Concerns and Court Mediators’ Custody Recommendations
Parsing Through Public Records
Measuring Community Engagement Practices in Domestic Violence Programs
Post-Separation Abuse of Women and their Children
Coercive Control in the Courtroom
The Three Planet Model
Three Approaches to Qualitative Content Analysis
Qualitative Quality
| Citations per year | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |