TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - On the lived experience of battered women residing in shelters
JO  - Journal of family violence
A1  - Haj-Yahia, Muhammad M.
A1  - Cohen, Hilla Chaya
SP  - 95
EP  - 109
VL  - 24
IS  - 2
N2  - We present a qualitative study of battered women, which examined their experiences while staying at shelters. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 18 battered women staying at shelters. The interviews elicited four main themes: the women’s perceptions of the shelter; the woman’s perceptions of herself and her life experiences; the woman’s perceptions of her relations with other battered women at the shelter; and the woman’s perceptions of her relations with the staff of the shelter. The paper concludes with a discussion of the limitations of the study, implications for future research, implications for theory development, and implications for therapy and intervention with the problem of wife battering.<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0885-7482
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10896-008-9214-3
ID  - ref1
ER  -