Counselman-Carpenter Elisabeth, Redcay Alex
Department of Social Work, Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT 06515, USA.
School of Social Work, Millersville University, Millersville, PA 17551, USA.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2018 Aug 28;8(9):77. doi: 10.3390/bs8090077.
This theoretical paper explores the need to use posttraumatic growth (PTG) as a framework when studying sexual minority women (SMW) who are survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) to examine the relationship between risk factors such as stress, anxiety and alcohol use and to understand the role of protective factors through mining for the presence of posttraumatic growth (PTG). Despite a call for continued research in this highly vulnerable population, representative studies of SMW and PTG remain extremely limited. Research that examines the relationship between IPV, behavioral health issues, and posttraumatic growth would provide the opportunity to develop tailored intervention models and opportunities for program development to decrease isolation and increase factors of posttraumatic growth. In particular, the impact of how interpersonal relationships as potential mediators and/or outcomes of posttraumatic growth (PTG) needs to be explored more thoroughly. PTG is a valuable framework for vulnerable populations such as sexual minority women because it focuses on how transformative change may result from traumatic experiences such as surviving IPV.
这篇理论性论文探讨了在研究遭受亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）的性少数女性（SMW）时，将创伤后成长（PTG）作为一个框架的必要性，以检验压力、焦虑和酒精使用等风险因素之间的关系，并通过挖掘创伤后成长（PTG）的存在来理解保护因素的作用。尽管呼吁对这一高度脆弱的人群继续开展研究，但关于性少数女性和创伤后成长的代表性研究仍然极为有限。研究亲密伴侣暴力、行为健康问题和创伤后成长之间的关系，将为开发量身定制的干预模式以及项目发展提供机会，以减少孤立感并增加创伤后成长的因素。特别是，作为创伤后成长（PTG）潜在调解因素和/或结果的人际关系的影响，需要更深入地进行探索。创伤后成长对于性少数女性等弱势群体而言是一个有价值的框架，因为它关注诸如从亲密伴侣暴力中幸存等创伤经历如何可能带来变革性的改变。
