Effects of procedures to maximize well-being and parental competence in victimized women/Efeitos de procedimentos para maximizar o bem-estar e a competencia parental em mulheres vitimizadas

The "Projeto Parceria" (The Partnership Project) aims at teaching parenting skills to women with a history of intimate partner violence, including two distinctive units: (I) specific unit to analyze violence effects and its prevention and (II) unit to teach strategies for the effective management of their children's behavior. This paper evaluated the effects of three different procedures used in the application of these units: (a) Unit I followed by Unit II; (b) Unit II followed by Unit I; and (c) Units I and II simultaneously applied using a single-subject design. Nine mothers with a history of intimate partner violence were distributed into three groups, each with one type of procedure, and they participated in 20 individual sessions. Favorable intervention effects were observed in the three groups, especially in the simultaneous units' procedure group (c).