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¶ … women come out of an abusive relationship, the negative psychological traumas they feel continue. This study makes a comparison between forgiveness therapy (FT) and alternative therapy (AT)-assertiveness, anger validation and interpersonal skill building for women who have been abused emotionally and had been separated permanently from their romantic partner or spouse for up to two years or more. A total of 20 women in Midwest city who were abused psychologically made up the participants. Psychological abuse from one's spouse characterizes a very agonizing infidelity, which often leads to very serious depressing psychological results for the partner who has been abused. There are reports of both standard deviations and mean scores for every measure at pretest, posttest, as well as follow-up for everyone in the forgiveness therapy group and both pretest and posttest for everyone in the alternative therapy group. This represents the first research for the demonstration of the efficacy of forgiveness therapy as a reliable therapeutic strategy for ameliorating the long-lasting adverse effects of psychological abuse from one's spouse. Furthermore, this research reveals the extent that forgiveness therapy advances development in the area of psychological health to a considerably greater level as compared to the alternative therapy the literature recommends for women who have...
The researcher compared forgiveness therapy and alternative therapy scores beginning from pretest and ending in posttest, covering all the dependent variables using matched-pair tests. Furthermore, the researcher carried out analysis on forgiveness therapy on how participants maintained gains by making a comparison between the pretest gain scores of each participant to the gain scores from her posttest beginning from the pretest and ending at the follow-up. The research was designed around strengths like adopting individualized therapy, advancing at the pace of each client and ending the therapy at the participant's discretion, manualized treatment, the practice of alternative treatment as the published literature advocated, and screening every participant, very careful to…
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Reed, G.L., & Engright, R.D. (2006). The effect of forgiveness therapy on depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress for women after spousal emotional abuse. Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 74(5), 920.
Abusive Relationships Women in Abusive Relationships The Bureau of Justice Statistics (2006) states that during the 1990's, the major reason for 22% of divorce cases in the American society was violence. In a similar context, among all the female victims who were murdered during 2003, approximately 30% were slaughtered by their husbands and boyfriends. Such thought provoking and disappointing statistics show the ongoing violence being faced by women which is not only
women stay abusive relationships briefly cover steps remedy situation. (Approx 1000 words). General opinions over the reason women choose to remain within abusive relationships may differ. For outsiders, these women may appear exaggeratedly naive or perhaps weak. However, it is also generally understood that women who end up struggling with their husband/partner's abusive behavior are subject to specific psychological typologies. These may have been brought up and educated by highly
In conclusion, a hypothesis is appropriate. There are empirically proven factors related to an abused woman's decision to leave a relationship (Strube, et al., 1984) that should be part of any counselling program for abused women. To wit, a study of 251 battered women shows that the following facts generally were true of women who left: more likely than not they were employed; those who left had been in the
Cause: My Name Is Jess Overton From Case to Cause: My Name is Jess Overton The client, Jess had done so well for the 30 days while sheltering that she almost enrolled in a training program. She had wanted to be a lab technician, but due to the lack of funds, her parents could not to send her to school. She was also preparing to move into a transitional apartment, but with
Introduction to Marriage and Abusive RelationshipsIn many marriage environments, abuse takes the form of domestic violence that comes with control or posing threats to the partner. It takes more specific formats like physical violence, which features violence such as beating and hitting and gradually becoming a frequent behavior.[footnoteRef:1] Secondly, sexual abuse is equally common where one partner forces themself to the other. Psychological abuse is also predominant in marriages. One
Abusive Relationships, Patterns of Violence, the Future of the Family Part 1 Some women remain in abusive relationships for different reasons. Some are scared to leave. Others feel that they still love the person so to leave because they are being abused would be wrong. Some see the abuse as a trade-off that comes with the security the person provides, such as money, shelter, etc. Sometimes there is a co-dependency and the