Psychological Distress and Intimate Physical and Sexual Abuse among Women in Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programs

Articles:

Title:: Psychological Distress and Intimate Physical and Sexual Abuse among Women in Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programs
Author(s):: Schiff, Miriam
El‐Bassel, Nabila
Engstrom, Malitta
Gilbert, Louisa
Date:: 2002
Type:: Articles
Department:: Social Work
Volume:: 76
Permanent URL:: http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:12930
Book/Journal Title:: Social Service Review
Abstract:: Guided by the cognitive theory of stress and coping and the comprehensive health‐seeking and coping paradigm, this study examines associations among intimate partner abuse and psychological distress, posttraumatic stress disorder, childhood sexual abuse, and current drug use among a cohort of 416 women randomly recruited from New York City methadone treatment programs. Findings expand on past evidence of the high prevalence of psychological distress among adult victimized women and among those with a history of childhood sexual abuse. Women currently abused by their partners have more posttraumatic stress symptoms, depression, and psychological distress than women not abused by their partners.
Subject(s):: Social psychology
DOI:: 10.1086/339665