EPISODICALLY HOMELESS WOMEN WITH SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS: Prevalence of Physical and Sexual Assault

Three aspects of physical and sexual assault in the histories of 99 episodically homeless, seriously mentally ill women were assessed: lifetime prevalence; severity, co-occurrence, and recency; and associations between levels of this victimization and specific characteristics of the women. Results i...

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Veröffentlicht in:	American journal of orthopsychiatry 1995-10, Vol.65 (4), p.468-478
Hauptverfasser:	Goodman, Lisa A, Dutton, Mary Ann, Harris, Maxine
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Abuse Adult African Americans - psychology African Americans - statistics & numerical data Aged Alcoholism - epidemiology Alcoholism - psychology Assault Assaults Biological and medical sciences Bipolar Disorder - epidemiology Bipolar Disorder - psychology Borderline Personality Disorder - epidemiology Borderline Personality Disorder - psychology Child Child Abuse, Sexual - psychology Child Abuse, Sexual - statistics & numerical data Comorbidity Cross-Sectional Studies Depressive Disorder - epidemiology Depressive Disorder - psychology Female Females Homeless Homeless mentally ill women Homeless people Homeless Persons - psychology Homeless Persons - statistics & numerical data Homelessness Human Human Females Humans Incidence Medical sciences Mental Disorders Mental Disorders - epidemiology Mental Disorders - psychology Mental Illness Middle Aged Physical Abuse Poverty - psychology Poverty - statistics & numerical data Psychiatry Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Psychotic Disorders - epidemiology Psychotic Disorders - psychology Rape - psychology Rape - statistics & numerical data Schizophrenia - epidemiology Schizophrenic Psychology Serious Mental Illness Sexual Abuse Sexual Assault Spouse Abuse - psychology Spouse Abuse - statistics & numerical data Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology Substance-Related Disorders - psychology United States - epidemiology Victimization Victimology Violence Violence - psychology Violence - statistics & numerical data Women
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Zusammenfassung:	Three aspects of physical and sexual assault in the histories of 99 episodically homeless, seriously mentally ill women were assessed: lifetime prevalence; severity, co-occurrence, and recency; and associations between levels of this victimization and specific characteristics of the women. Results indicate that the life-time risk for violent victimization was so high (97%) as to amount to normative experiences for this population.
ISSN:	0002-9432 1939-0025
DOI:	10.1037/h0079669