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The Recovery Journey: Mother-Survivors' Struggles and Strengths Navigating Recovery in a Domestic Violence Shelter

Audrey, Crowl K
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1682593792944735

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2023, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Ohio University, Social Work.
Domestic violence is a prevalent issue with extensive impacts. For some, abuse greatly threatens immediate safety and survivors are forced to flee their homes to seek refuge in domestic violence shelters. These shelters address immediate environmental, social, and emotional concerns, helping guide survivors through recovery. Like all people, survivors encompass a wide range of intersecting identities and backgrounds, inevitably making their recovery experience individualized. In particular, mother-survivors staying in domestic violence shelters face unique challenges as restrictions are placed on them which make parenting more difficult and in turn hinder parts of their recovery. Through qualitative interviews conducted with mother-survivors and staff members of domestic violence shelters, this study examines the unique challenges and strengths of mothers recovering from abuse in a domestic violence shelter. Findings reveal that the shelter supervision and discipline policies inhibit the recovery of mother-survivors. Despite these struggles with child-related policies, however, findings also show that motherhood is an important source of strength in recovery for survivors. Recommendations include promoting survivor-centered, trauma-informed care in shelters, being sympathetic and flexible when communicating and enforcing parenting policies, continuously building up a mother-survivor’s self-image, and, if possible, expanding interventions and programming to address the specific needs of mother-survivors.
Rebekah Crawford (Advisor)
123 p.
Social Work
domestic violence; intimate partner violence; survivor; motherhood; mother-survivor; domestic violence shelters; recovery; policy analysis; intensive motherhood; parenting discipline tactics

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  • Audrey, C. K. (2023). The Recovery Journey: Mother-Survivors' Struggles and Strengths Navigating Recovery in a Domestic Violence Shelter [Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1682593792944735

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Audrey, Crowl. The Recovery Journey: Mother-Survivors' Struggles and Strengths Navigating Recovery in a Domestic Violence Shelter . 2023. Ohio University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1682593792944735.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Audrey, Crowl. "The Recovery Journey: Mother-Survivors' Struggles and Strengths Navigating Recovery in a Domestic Violence Shelter ." Undergraduate thesis, Ohio University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1682593792944735

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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