Interrelationships among length of stay in a domestic violence shelter, help received, and outcomes achieved.

Cris M. Sullivan · Tyler Virden

28 citations0/0 files storedAmerican Journal of Orthopsychiatry

No readable copy stored yet — this record is metadata only.

No open-access location is known for this record yet.

Literature note Cite in a project Citation map

Intimate Partner and Family Violence Homelessness and Social Issues Elder Abuse and Neglect

Abstract

Survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) have a variety of reasons for turning to domestic violence shelter programs. Some are seeking temporary respite and immediate safety while others are seeking longer term assistance to heal from their trauma and begin new lives. In line with these differing needs, some survivors only stay in shelter for a few days, while others may need to stay for months or even years. The current study involved secondary data analysis of an 8-state study that collected information from survivors shortly after they arrived in shelter and shortly before exit. The relationships between length of shelter stay and survivors' needs, help received, and outcomes achieved were examined. As hypothesized, length of stay was related to the number of needs reported by survivors at shelter entry, as well as the type of needs identified. Length of stay did not relate to outcomes achieved nor overall satisfaction with help received, supporting the argument that many shelter staff work from an empowering, survivor-driven philosophy to meet the myriad needs of shelter residents, and that the help they provide leads to positive outcomes. These findings substantiate the assertion that domestic violence shelters are critical resources that address far more than immediate safety needs of IPV survivors. (PsycINFO Database Record

Paper brief

Loading…

Cite this work

Citation unavailable for this work.

BibTeX RIS CSL-JSON

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Citations in this library

Citation map →

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 28 citations exist upstream.

References

2002TARGET ARTICLE: Hope Theory: Rainbows in the Mind 2013Mental and Physical Health and Intimate Partner Violence against Women: A Review of the Literature 2008Development of the Scale of Economic Abuse 2009Health Care Utilization and Costs Associated with Physical and Nonphysical‐Only Intimate Partner Violence 2002Intimate Partner Abuse and Mental Health 2007Intimate Partner Violence and Housing Instability 2015Risk Factors for Men’s Lifetime Perpetration of Physical Violence against Intimate Partners: Results from the International Men and Gender Equality Survey (IMAGES) in Eight Countries 2000Choice and Empowerment for Battered Women Who Stay: Toward a Constructivist Model

Cited by

2021Examining the Impact of Duration, Connection, and Dosage of Domestic Violence Services on Survivor Well-Being 2022Impact of the Domestic Violence Housing First Model on Survivors’ Safety and Housing Stability: 12-Month Findings 2022Impact of the Domestic Violence Housing First Model on Survivors’ Safety and Housing Stability: Six Month Findings 2022Structural and Institutional Barriers to Help-Seeking among Female Victims of Intimate Partner Violence in Ghana

Explore the map →

Papers that cite the same references — the relational fallback while embeddings are still backfilling.

Imported from OpenAlex (CC0) — nothing here is generated.