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Leaving An Abusive Partner
TLDR
A stress-process framework is used to explain the seemingly paradoxical finding that some women just out of the abusive relationship may have greater psychological difficulties than those who are still in it.
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A typology of men who batter: three types derived from cluster analysis.
  • D. Saunders
  • Psychology
    The American journal of orthopsychiatry
  • 1 April 1992
TLDR
Important theoretical and treatment implications may be revealed when men who batter their intimate partners are categorized according to type, and three types identified: family-only aggressor, generalized aggressors, and emotionally volatile aggressors.
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Posttraumatic Stress Symptom Profiles of Battered Women: A Comparison of Survivors in Two Settings
  • D. Saunders
  • Psychology
    Violence and Victims
  • 1 January 1994
TLDR
Group differences in PTSD symptomatology were not present after statistically controlling for severity and frequency of the violence and length of time since the abusive relationship.
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Are Physical Assaults by Wives and Girlfriends a Major Social Problem?
Research that shows approximately equal rates of dating and domestic violence by men and women has been used to challenge the priority given to services for abused women. This article reviews the…
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When Battered Women Use Violence: Husband-Abuse or Self-Defense?
  • D. Saunders
  • Psychology
    Violence and Victims
  • 1 January 1986
TLDR
Data is presented from 52 battered women on their motives for using violence against their partners and the concepts of “self-defense” and “fighting back” were significantly and positively correlated; that is, many women saw them as being the same.
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Feminist-Cognitive-Behavioral and Process-Psychodynamic Treatments for Men Who Batter: Interaction of Abuser Traits and Treatment Models
  • D. Saunders
  • Psychology
    Violence and Victims
  • 1 January 1996
TLDR
At a community-based domestic violence program, 218 men with a history of partner abuse were randomly assigned to either feminist-cognitive-behavioral or process-psychodynamic group treatments, and men with dependent personalities and those with antisocial traits had better outcomes in the cognitive- behavioral groups.
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The Impact of Different Forms of Psychological Abuse on Battered Women
TLDR
Both psychological abuse and physical abuse contributed independently to depression and low self-esteem, however, fear of being abused was uniquely predicted by psychological abuse.
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Group Interventions for Men Who Batter: A Summary of Program Descriptions and Research
TLDR
The major components of current programs are described, along with studies on treatment effectiveness, and methods for enhancing treatment motivation and culturally competent practice are covered.
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The Inventory of Beliefs about Wife Beating: The Construction and Initial Validation of a Measure of Beliefs and Attitudes
TLDR
Sympathetic attitudes toward battered women were related, as predicted, with liberal views of women’s roles and sympathetic attitudes toward rape victims, and several possible uses of the measure are described.
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Wife abuse, husband abuse, or mutual combat?: A feminist perspective on the empirical findings.
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