Dipartimento di Psicologia, Università di Bologna, Viale Europa 115, 47521, Cesena, FC, Italy.
BMC Womens Health. 2021 Apr 6;21(1):138. doi: 10.1186/s12905-021-01268-7.
Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is one of the most common forms of domestic violence, with profound implication for women's physical and psychological health. In this text we adopted the Empowerment Process Model (EPM) by Cattaneo and Goodman (Psychol Violence 5(1):84-94) to analyse interventions provided to victims of IPV by a Support Centre for Women (SCW) in Italy, and understand its contribution to women's empowerment.
We conducted semi-structured interviews with ten women who had been enrolled in a program for IPV survivors at a SCW in the past three years. The interviews focused on the programs' aims, actions undertaken to reach them, and the impact on the women's lives, and were analysed using an interpretative phenomenological approach.
Results showed that the interventions provided by the SWC were adapted according to women's needs. In the early phases, women's primary aim was ending violence, and the intervention by the SCW was deemed as helpful to the extent it provided psychological support, protection and safe housing. Women's aims subsequently moved to self-actualisation and economic and personal independence which required professional training, internships, and social support. Although satisfying the majority of the women's expectations, other important needs (e.g., economic support or legal services) were poorly addressed, and cooperation with other services (e.g., police or social services) was sometimes deemed as critical.
By evaluating a program offered by a SCW to IPV survivors through the lens of the EPM model, we found that women deemed the program as effective when both individual resources and empowerment processes were promoted. Strengths, limitations and implications are discussed.
亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）是最常见的家庭暴力形式之一，对妇女的身心健康有着深远的影响。在本文中，我们采用 Cattaneo 和 Goodman（Psychol Violence 5(1):84-94）的赋权过程模型（EPM）来分析意大利一家妇女支持中心（SCW）为 IPV 受害者提供的干预措施，并了解其对妇女赋权的贡献。
我们对过去三年中在 SCW 参加 IPV 幸存者项目的十名妇女进行了半结构化访谈。访谈重点关注项目的目标、为实现这些目标而采取的行动以及对妇女生活的影响，并采用解释现象学方法进行分析。
结果表明，SWC 提供的干预措施根据妇女的需求进行了调整。在早期阶段，妇女的主要目标是结束暴力，SCW 的干预被认为是有帮助的，因为它提供了心理支持、保护和安全住房。随后，妇女的目标转向自我实现和经济及个人独立，这需要专业培训、实习和社会支持。尽管满足了大多数妇女的期望，但其他重要需求（如经济支持或法律服务）没有得到很好的满足，与其他服务（如警察或社会服务）的合作有时被认为是至关重要的。
通过 EPM 模型评估 SCW 为 IPV 幸存者提供的项目，我们发现当个人资源和赋权过程都得到促进时，妇女认为该项目是有效的。讨论了优势、限制和影响。
