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Research Overview
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Recent publications by OGBV faculty
Article by Tina Jiwatram-Negrón, Karin Wachter, Jill Messing and colleagues. This article examines the intersections between types of intimate partner violence and a range of mental health outcomes, including depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and suicidality. The types of abuse that women experience are associated with adverse mental health, which has implications for social work practice with intimate partner violence survivors.
Jiwatram- Negrón, T., Cheng, S., Wachter, K., Mazzio, A.K., Ward, M., Reed, L. & Messing, J.T. (2024). Examining associations between multiple types of IPV and adverse mental health among IPV survivors. Journal of Family Violence, 39 (177-191).
Article by Ijeoma Ogbonnaya and colleagues. This article systematically evaluates the literature on intimate partner violence (IPV) interventions for young people (10-24 years old) involved with the child welfare and legal systems. We provide child welfare and legal system-related practice, policy, and research recommendations based on our findings.
Nwabuzor Ogbonnaya, I., Ward, M. R., Rose, M. L., Peterson, E., & Ferguson, K. (2023). A systematic review of interventions to reduce intimate partner violence among young people in child welfare and legal system settings. Journal of Family Violence.
Article by Jill Messing, Karin Wachter and colleagues. This article provides practical advice for connecting with immigrant and refugee survivors of intimate partner violence s around their risk factors to facilitate safety planning. Based on interviews with domestic violence practitioners, we developed a framework that focuses on Connection, Communication and Action.
Messing, J.T., Wachter, K., AbiNader, M., Ward-Lasher, A., Njie-Carr, V., Sabri, B., Murray, S. Noor-Oshiro, A., Campbell, J. (2022). “We have to build trust": Intimate partner violence risk assessment with immigrant and refugee survivors. Social Work Research.
Article by Karin Wachter and colleagues. This article is a qualitative study that examined factors that hinder help seeking for intimate partner violence among women who resettled to the United States as refugees.
Wachter, K., Cook Heffron, L., Dalpe, J., & Spitz, A. (2021). “Where Is the Women’s Center Here?”: The Role of Information in Refugee Women’s Help Seeking for Intimate Partner Violence in a Resettlement Context. Violence Against Women, 27(12-13), 2355-2376.