Problematising Effectiveness: The Inclusion of Victim Advocacy Services in Living Without Violence Programme Provision and Evaluation
| dc.contributor.author | Denne, Stephanie | |
| dc.contributor.author | Coombes, Leigh | |
| dc.contributor.author | Morgan, Mandy | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-12-15T22:15:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-12-15T22:15:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012 | |
| dc.description | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Advocacy services in collaboration with living without violence programmes have the potential to increase experiences of safety and well-being for the victims of domestic violence. However, advocacy services are not always offered within programmes and the influence of advocacy is often over-looked when evaluating the ‘effectiveness’ of programme provision. An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of semi-structured interviews with five (ex) partners of men who had completed a living without violence programme found that advocacy services meaningfully increased victims’ feelings of safety and well-being independent from changes, or lack of change, in the men’s violent behaviour. Therefore, victim advocacy may be a valuable addition to living without violence programmes and can potentially offer a broader, multidimensional understanding of ‘effectiveness’ in evaluations of programme success. | en |
| dc.identifier.issn | 2324-1330 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10179/4955 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | School of Psychology, Massey University | en |
| dc.subject | Evaluation research | en |
| dc.subject | Victim advocacy | en |
| dc.subject | Living without violence programmes | en |
| dc.subject | Domestic violence | en |
| dc.title | Problematising Effectiveness: The Inclusion of Victim Advocacy Services in Living Without Violence Programme Provision and Evaluation | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |