A General Look at Women Taking Shelters: What are they living through? What can we do?

Violence is an important social issue to which the women are exposed the most. Women shelters are one of the responsive services for the women experiencing violence. In this research, we planned to make situational detection on sociodemographic characteristics and the properties related to the viole...

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Main Authors: Gamer Gunay, Esra Alatas, Suheyla Dogan Bulut, Sibel Orsel
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Language:English
Published: Kare Publishing 2016-08-01
Series:Bilişsel Davranışçı Psikoterapi ve Araştırmalar Dergisi
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Online Access:http://www.ejmanager.com/fulltextpdf.php?mno=243919
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description Violence is an important social issue to which the women are exposed the most. Women shelters are one of the responsive services for the women experiencing violence. In this research, we planned to make situational detection on sociodemographic characteristics and the properties related to the violence they experienced and origin families for the women taking shelters and search for feasible additional social support and protective precautions in light of the analysis. By interviewing 46 cases living in Ankara Women Shelter face to face, a socidemographic form, SCID-1, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-28) were applied. The average age of cases is 31.46±8.36 years. By CTQ-28, it is detected emotional in %75, physical in % 65.4 and sexual abuse in % 51, other than that %69.2 physical and % 55.8 emotional neglect story. There were behaviour of violence in mothers of %28.8, fathers of %36.5 and siblings of %15.4 of the cases. Duration of marriageis 10.52±9.96 years, marriage age is 18.48±4.29 years and the average duration of getting exposed to violence in their marriage is 11.44±8.27 years. It is declared that the cases were exposed to % 96.2 physical, % 84.6 emotional, %92.3 verbal, % 25 sexual and %78.8 economicalviolence, %65.4 of them experienced violence also in pregnancy and for %35.3 pregnancy was effected from the violence. In %54.2 of the cases there were detected suicide attempt history and the most (% 65.4) major depression primary diagnosis. It can be said with our current findings that the women taking shelters has been facing violence since their childhood, couldnt get enough economical and social support from their families and experienced several mental illnesses with their trauma. Individual strengthening, supporting, providing the psychiatrist applications and pharmacotheraphy treatments in necessary conditions, appyling group and individual theraphies will provide women to be strengthened psychologically until they leave the shelters. On the other hand, providing educational-professional development and labor facilities will enable women to survive after they leave the shelter. Keywords: womens shelter, violence, women [JCBPR 2016; 5(2.000): 75-84]
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spelling doaj-art-6edcbfec31b243dab2c01ade554e437c2025-02-03T10:15:46ZengKare PublishingBilişsel Davranışçı Psikoterapi ve Araştırmalar Dergisi2146-94902016-08-0152758410.5455/JCBPR.243919243919A General Look at Women Taking Shelters: What are they living through? What can we do?Gamer Gunay0Esra Alatas1Suheyla Dogan Bulut2Sibel Orsel3Anamur Devlet Hastanesi Ankara Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Egitim ve Arastirma Hastanesi, Psikiyatri Klinigi Ankara Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Egitim ve Arastirma Hastanesi, Psikiyatri Klinigi Bulent ecevit Universitesi, Ruh Sagligi ve Hastaliklari A.B.DViolence is an important social issue to which the women are exposed the most. Women shelters are one of the responsive services for the women experiencing violence. In this research, we planned to make situational detection on sociodemographic characteristics and the properties related to the violence they experienced and origin families for the women taking shelters and search for feasible additional social support and protective precautions in light of the analysis. By interviewing 46 cases living in Ankara Women Shelter face to face, a socidemographic form, SCID-1, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-28) were applied. The average age of cases is 31.46±8.36 years. By CTQ-28, it is detected emotional in %75, physical in % 65.4 and sexual abuse in % 51, other than that %69.2 physical and % 55.8 emotional neglect story. There were behaviour of violence in mothers of %28.8, fathers of %36.5 and siblings of %15.4 of the cases. Duration of marriageis 10.52±9.96 years, marriage age is 18.48±4.29 years and the average duration of getting exposed to violence in their marriage is 11.44±8.27 years. It is declared that the cases were exposed to % 96.2 physical, % 84.6 emotional, %92.3 verbal, % 25 sexual and %78.8 economicalviolence, %65.4 of them experienced violence also in pregnancy and for %35.3 pregnancy was effected from the violence. In %54.2 of the cases there were detected suicide attempt history and the most (% 65.4) major depression primary diagnosis. It can be said with our current findings that the women taking shelters has been facing violence since their childhood, couldnt get enough economical and social support from their families and experienced several mental illnesses with their trauma. Individual strengthening, supporting, providing the psychiatrist applications and pharmacotheraphy treatments in necessary conditions, appyling group and individual theraphies will provide women to be strengthened psychologically until they leave the shelters. On the other hand, providing educational-professional development and labor facilities will enable women to survive after they leave the shelter. Keywords: womens shelter, violence, women [JCBPR 2016; 5(2.000): 75-84]http://www.ejmanager.com/fulltextpdf.php?mno=243919womens shelterviolencewomen
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A General Look at Women Taking Shelters: What are they living through? What can we do?
Bilişsel Davranışçı Psikoterapi ve Araştırmalar Dergisi
womens shelter
violence
women
title A General Look at Women Taking Shelters: What are they living through? What can we do?
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title_short A General Look at Women Taking Shelters: What are they living through? What can we do?
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topic womens shelter
violence
women
url http://www.ejmanager.com/fulltextpdf.php?mno=243919
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