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Statement of Topic The topic of this study is children’s articulation about their experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV). As stated by the authors, “narratives were often incoherent and difficult to understand.” The present study discusses difficulties children had in describing their exposure to IPV. Statement of Purpose The purpose of this study is to describe how children discuss and relate to their experiences of IPV to understand how they interpret and handle their memories for future treatment considerations. The current study discusses children’s articulation of experiencing IPV as being challenging and the authors explained that children were not capable of forming coherent narratives describing the violence. One point …show more content…

The children who participated in the treatment program were children who saw IPV against their mother. The authors interviewed 14 children between the ages of 8 and 12 with an average age of 10. The authors stated 15 children were initially chosen, but one was excluded due to sound recording problems. The authors conducted face-to-face interviews before or at the beginning of treatment and interviews ranged from 20 to 60 minutes. Interviews were audio-taped, transcribed and then analyzed. The qualitative computer NVivo-7 was used to sort and code the data. Interviews were semi-structured with questions covering different topics about experiences of witnessing IPV as well as a child’s present situation at home and school. Open-ended questions were used to detect different themes. A semi-structured interview was used to support the children’s narration of difficult experiences and to make sure that topics of interest were covered. Thematic analysis was used to identify, analyze, and report patterns related to children’s experiences of IPV observed in the data. Each interview was read several times by all three authors and annotations and significant topics were observed, grouped and eventually different themes were

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