The healing journey: The relationship of intimate partner violence to mental health issues

Tutty, Leslie M.

Friday, March 20, 2015: 4:00 PM-5:20 PM

Room 4 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Leslie M. Tutty, PhD, University of Calgary

Authors:
Christine Ateah, RN, PhD, University of Manitoba
H. Lorraine Radtke, PhD, University of Calgary
Mary Hampton, PhD, University of Regina

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Presentation Format:
Scientific Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Understand the context within which women abused by intimate partners present with mental health issues.
Know more about measuring mental health problems in research with abused women.
Understand the implications and possible treatment recommendations when women abused by partners develop mental health concerns.

Description:
This presentation examines the relationship between the nature of intimate partner violence as documented by the Composite Abuse Scale (CAS) and mental health issues identified by the Symptom Checklist-10, The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Questionnaire and the PTSD Checklist. The data on 665 women is from a Canadian longitudinal, tri-provincial study (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba) of abused women that examined the nature of the partner abuse, mental health, and well-being (Ursel, et al., 2004) in mainstream and Aboriginal women.