Child Psychiatry, Tampere University Hospital, Wellbeing Area of Pirkanmaa, 33520 Tampere, Finland.
Health Sciences Unit, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, 33014 Tampere, Finland.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2023 Apr 4;20(7):5389. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20075389.
After suffering interpersonal violence (IPV), women survivors can access various interdisciplinary services and programmes to guide their recovery. Nevertheless, many vulnerable women postpone seeking help, sometimes indefinitely. Motherhood especially complicates help-seeking because mothers often want to protect both the perpetrator and their children. Understanding women's resilience, resources, and capacities in surviving IPV, however, could guide the development of helpful services that women actually access. Thus, in our study, we sought to explore the agency, resources, and reinforcing survival experiences of survivors of IPV. Our data, gathered in Finland during the COVID-19 pandemic, consisted of 12 narratives of mothers told in Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Interviews that were subsequently subjected to thematic analysis. Five themes describing personal resources, motherhood, and nature were identified under the overarching metaphor of "going forward like a grandmother in the snow". Recognising the agency, resources, capacities, and coping mechanisms of women who have suffered IPV can help in developing professional outreach programmes, promoting women's early access to useful resources, and, in turn, helping them to stop the possible intergenerational transmission of violence.
遭受人际暴力（IPV）后，女性幸存者可以获得各种跨学科的服务和计划来指导她们康复。然而，许多弱势女性会推迟寻求帮助，有时甚至无限期推迟。母亲身份尤其使寻求帮助变得复杂，因为母亲通常希望保护施暴者和他们的孩子。然而，了解女性在 IPV 中生存的适应力、资源和能力，可以指导发展出女性实际能够获得的有益服务。因此，在我们的研究中，我们试图探索 IPV 幸存者的能动性、资源和强化生存经验。我们的数据来自 COVID-19 大流行期间在芬兰收集的 12 个母亲的叙述，这些叙述在临床人种志叙事访谈中进行，随后进行了主题分析。在“像雪中的祖母一样向前走”的总体隐喻下，确定了个人资源、母性和自然五个主题。认识到遭受 IPV 的女性的能动性、资源、能力和应对机制，可以帮助制定专业的外展计划，促进女性早期获得有用的资源，并帮助她们阻止可能的代际暴力传递。
