Silent voices: exploring narratives of women's experiences of health care professional responses to domestic violence and abuse

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The impact of domestic violence and abuse (DVA) is far reaching not least in terms of both the immediate and longer term physical and mental wellbeing of those who have experienced abuse. DVA also exerts a considerable detrimental impact on the wider family including children. While professional perspectives of working with DVA survivors is increasingly well documented, there remains a paucity of accounts of encounters with healthcare services and/or healthcare professionals from survivors of DVA themselves. A central aim of this study was the exploration of women’s experiences of healthcare encounters told purely as personal narrative rather than framed in more traditional research terms. The focus of this paper therefore is unedited personal stories of encounters with healthcare professionals. The position of narrative as research method and the presentation of narratives in this particular instance are also considered.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	McGarry, J. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7629-2447 Hinsliff-Smith, K.
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© The Author(s) 2020. Open Access: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Keywords:	Domestic violence and abuse; Narrative; Focus groups; Pedagogy; Healthcare professionals
Dates:	Published: June 2021 Published (online): 15 May 2020
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health (Sheffield)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	24 Nov 2021 10:24
Last Modified:	24 Nov 2021 10:24
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1007/s10912-020-09621-x
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:180824

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Silent voices: exploring narratives of women's experiences of health care professional responses to domestic violence and abuse

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