Speak Up, Seek Help, Safe Home. A review of literature on culturally appropriate interventions for intimate partner violence in ethnic communities.
Key Results
- There is very little New Zealand research on culturally appropriate interventions for intimate partner violence in ethnic communities.
- The research generally lacks evaluation.
- Most research deals with services for victims or prevention; little deals with treatment for offenders.
- The most promising interventions involved engaging victims and offenders in specialised concurrtent therapy groups that consider clients‟ broad social contexts, although evaluation for effectiveness and safety is lacking.*
- The suggestions for making services for victims more culturally appropriate/reaching ethnic communities broadly aligned with the themes arising from MWA‟s and OEA‟s own community consultations.