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Pia Keiski1,2, Aune Flinck1,3, Marja Kaunonen1
1Faculty of Social Sciences, Health Sciences, University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland.
Purpose:
To explore the childhood experiences of women who have perpetrated family-violence and voluntarily sought help.
Design And Methods:
The qualitative design includes in-depth, unstructured individual interviews with 19 women who have perpetrated family-violence.
Findings:
The categories of maltreatment exposure, parental capability, and a role of the sensitive, good girl are identified and described in this article.
Practice Implications:
The findings provide guidance for nurses who encounter families at risk of female family-violence perpetration and for those developing preventive interventions for female family-violence perpetrators whose family-of-origin issues are essential in processing issues of self.
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