Promoting resilience in adults with experience of intimate partner violence or child maltreatment: a narrative synthesis of evidence across settings.

Background: People who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) or child maltreatment (CM) are at risk of having lower resilience and adverse psychological outcomes. In keeping with the social and environmental factors that support resilience, there is a need to take a public health approach to its investigation and to identify existing initiatives in particular settings and populations that can guide its deliberate promotion.

Method: This narrative synthesis examines quantitative and qualitative studies of interventions with resilience-related outcomes in specified health and other settings.