Testing a Talkstory Intervention to create Supportive and Safe Violence-Free Communities for Women.

The purpose of this paper is to report on a community-designed and led talkstory intervention to increase awareness of intimate partner violence (IPV), decrease acceptability of IPV, and increase community leadership to address IPV. In collaboration with women engaged in prior IPV outreach and education in Hawai'i, a talkstory intervention for IPV was developed, and a single-group, pre-post-test design was used to test it. The intervention included five talkstory sessions over seven months with community groups interested in violence prevention.

Engaging Native Hawaiians and Pilipinos in creating supportive and safe violence-free communities for women through a piloted "talkstory" intervention: Implications for program development.

In Hawaii, 20% of women have been victims of intimate partner violence (IPV). Although disaggregated data specific to Native Hawaiians or Pilipinos (The official Filipino language recognizes both Filipino (Filipina) and Pilipino (Pilipina) as terms for the citizens of the country. Participants in this study chose to use the terms Pilipino (Pilipina).

Cognitive trauma therapy for battered women with PTSD (CTT-BW).

This article describes a second treatment-outcome study of cognitive trauma therapy for battered women with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD; CTT-BW). CTT-BW includes trauma history exploration: PTSD education; stress management; exposure to abuse and abuser reminders; self-monitoring of negative self-talk; cognitive therapy for guilt; and modules on self-advocacy, assertiveness, and how to identify perpetrators. One hundred twenty-five ethnically diverse women were randomly assigned to immediate or delayed CTT-BW.