@article{ref1,
title="Group compassion-based therapy for female survivors of intimate-partner violence and gender-based violence: a pilot study",
journal="Journal of family violence",
year="2021",
author="Naismith, Iona and Ripoll, Karen and Pardo, Valeria M.",
volume="36",
number="2",
pages="175-182",
abstract="Emotional disorders are common in survivors of gender-based violence, especially intimate partner violence (IPV), and are often maintained by shame and self-criticism. Compassion-based therapies target shame and self-criticism but have not been evaluated in this population to date, nor in any low- or middle-income country. Ten Colombian females reporting recent gender-based violence and clinical levels of emotional disorder(s) completed a 5-session group compassion-based therapy intervention. Measures of symptoms and hypothesized mediators were applied 5 weeks before treatment (baseline), pre-treatment, post-treatment and 3-month follow-up. At follow-up, 56 to 89% of cases showed reliable symptom change (depending on the measure). Self-inadequacy, guilt cognitions and experiential avoidance may be important mediators of change. <br><br>FINDINGS indicate that compassion-based interventions may benefit this population, even for women remaining in relationships with IPV, those with low formal education, and in contexts where gender-based violence is a social norm.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0885-7482",
doi="10.1007/s10896-019-00127-2",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-019-00127-2"
}