Abuse & violence in family of origin

["Anna K. Hagemeister" <ahagemei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been gathering various articles and instruments dealing with 
adult's reports of abuse and violence in their own families while 
growing up.  I would be interested if others 
have some ideas about other articles I could look at and/or 
instruments to use in conducting in-depth qualitatiave interviews
with adult women who have experienced abuse by their partners/spouses 
and who may have either been direct victims and/or witnesses of abuse and 
violence in their homes while children. 

What questions have people asked to gather this retrospective data in 
a qualitative format?  I have found several more quantitative 
instruments, but want to look more broadly than "yes/no, abuse 
occurred" or "abuse occurred 1-5 times."

Please respond directly and I would be happy to post a summary 
later when it's compiled.  Thank you.

Anna H.


 
 
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Annelies Hagemeister, M.A.
Research Assistant, School of Social Work
Graduate Student, SSW and Family Social Science
University of Minnesota
St. Paul, MN  55108
email: ahagemeister@che2.che.umn.edu
OR hagem001@tc.umn.edu

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