Faculty Articles
Couples with Intimate Partner Violence Seeking Relationship Help: Associations and Implications for Self-Help and Online Interventions
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Family Process
ISSN
1545-5300
Publication Date
6-1-2018
Abstract
In-person conjoint treatments for relationship distress are effective at increasing relationship satisfaction, and newly developed online programs are showing promising results. However, couples reporting even low levels intimate partner violence (IPV) are traditionally excluded from these interventions. To improve the availability of couple-based treatment for couples with IPV, the present study sought to determine whether associations with IPV found in community samples generalized to couples seeking help for their relationship and whether web-based interventions for relationship distressed worked equally well for couples with IPV. In the first aim, in a sample of 2,797 individuals who were seeking online help for their relationship, the levels and correlates of both low-intensity and clinically significant IPV largely matched what is found in community samples. In the second aim, in a sample of 300 couples who were randomly assigned to a web-based intervention or a waitlist control group, low-impact IPV did not moderate the effects of the intervention for relationship distress. Therefore, web-based interventions may be an effective (and easily accessible) intervention for relationship distress for couples with low-intensity IPV.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12291
Volume
57
Issue
2
First Page
293
Last Page
307
PubMed ID
28425562
NSUWorks Citation
Roddy, M.,
Salivar, E. G.,
Doss, B.
(2018). Couples with Intimate Partner Violence Seeking Relationship Help: Associations and Implications for Self-Help and Online Interventions. Family Process, 57(2), 293-307.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/1692
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