RT Article
T1 Group Compassion-Based Therapy for Female Survivors of Intimate-Partner Violence and Gender-Based Violence: a Pilot Study
JF Journal of family violence
VO 36
IS 2
SP 175
OP 182
A1 Naismith, Iona
A2 Ripoll, Karen
A2 Pardo, Valeria M.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/174736391X
AB Emotional disorders are common in survivors of gender-based violence, especially intimate partner violence (IPV), and are often maintained by shame and self-criticism. Compassion-based therapies target shame and self-criticism but have not been evaluated in this population to date, nor in any low- or middle-income country. Ten Colombian females reporting recent gender-based violence and clinical levels of emotional disorder(s) completed a 5-session group compassion-based therapy intervention. Measures of symptoms and hypothesized mediators were applied 5 weeks before treatment (baseline), pre-treatment, post-treatment and 3-month follow-up. At follow-up, 56 to 89% of cases showed reliable symptom change (depending on the measure). Self-inadequacy, guilt cognitions and experiential avoidance may be important mediators of change. Findings indicate that compassion-based interventions may benefit this population, even for women remaining in relationships with IPV, those with low formal education, and in contexts where gender-based violence is a social norm.
K1 Latin America
K1 Shame
K1 Compassion
K1 Self-compassion
K1 Self-criticism
K1 intimate partner abuse
DO 10.1007/s10896-019-00127-2