Problematising Effectiveness: The Inclusion of Victim Advocacy Services in Living Without Violence Programme Provision and Evaluation

dc.contributor.authorDenne, Stephanie
dc.contributor.authorCoombes, Leigh
dc.contributor.authorMorgan, Mandy
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-15T22:15:16Z
dc.date.available2013-12-15T22:15:16Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported Licenseen
dc.description.abstractAdvocacy 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.issn2324-1330
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/4955
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSchool of Psychology, Massey Universityen
dc.subjectEvaluation researchen
dc.subjectVictim advocacyen
dc.subjectLiving without violence programmesen
dc.subjectDomestic violenceen
dc.titleProblematising Effectiveness: The Inclusion of Victim Advocacy Services in Living Without Violence Programme Provision and Evaluationen
dc.typeArticleen
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