親密關係中精神暴力受害者求助正式體系的經驗探討<P>The Formal Help-Seeking Experience From the Victims of Psychological Violence in Intimate Relationship
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The definition of intimate partner violence from Domestic Violence Prevention Act includes physical and psychological violence. The prevalence and intervention of psychological violence is higher than physical violence, and the impact caused by psychological violence is not less than physical violence. However, the prevention of intimate violence still focuses on physical violence in practice. When the victims of psychological violence seek help from formal service systems, they often experience a lot of frustrations. Therefore, the aim of this study is to understand their motivation, experiences, and feelings in the help-seeking processes from the perspective of the victims of psychological violence. The research adopted qualitative research approach to analyze the data obtained from in-depth interviews with 4 victims suffering from psychological violence and seeking help from formal service systems ( one is male, and the others are female). The research results indicated participants’ subjective experiences, including the types of violence experienced, effects, coping strategies, as well as their motivation, experiences, and the feelings in the help-seeking process, and then presented the effects and their expectations for the formal service system. The research results showed that participants mainly suffered from verbal and mental abuse. Their coping strategies could be divided into six forms: do not think about help-seeking, maintain relationship, afraid of seek help, leave the perpetrator, seek relatives and friends for help and seek help from formal service systems. The motivation for seeking formal service systems were to stop violence or to be persuaded by relatives and friends. As for the formal service systems, participants had sought help from the police system, the social welfare system, the legal system, the medical system, and the education system. In the police system, participants had positive and negative experiences. In social welfare system, most participants thought the services were useful. In the legal system, most participants felt that they were neglected or even questioned. In the medical system, a participant thought the service was passive and only provided medical treatment. In the education system, a participant considered having someone to talk with was great. Furthermore, this study also found that three participants didn’t know that they suffered from the psychological violence until accepting services. Finally, based on the analysis, the author draws some suggestions for practice and research.
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