Physical and Sexual Trauma, Psychiatric Symptoms, and Sense of Community Among Women in Recovery

Olson, Bradley D.; Curtis, Carmen E.; Jason, Leonard A.; Ferrari, Joseph R.; Horin, Elizabeth V.; Davis, Margaret I.; Flynn, Andrea; Alvarez, Josefina

doi:10.1300/j005v26n01_06

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“…Studies by Olson, Curtis, Jason, Ferrari, Horin, and Davis (2003) and d’Arlach, Olson, Jason, and Ferrari (2006) found average PSCS scores were higher among women who lived in Oxford Houses. A study by Alvarez, Adebanjo, Davidson, Jason, and Davis (2006) found that a matched sample of deaf and hearing participants scored similarly on PSCS scores.…”

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Sense of Community Among Individuals in Substance Abuse Recovery

Stevens

Jason

Ferrari

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Journal of Groups in Addiction & Recovery

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This study assessed the psychometric properties of the Psychological Sense of Community Scale (PSCS). Psychological sense of community is a construct that has been developed primarily in the field of community psychology and deals with the feelings of connectedness, group membership, and need fulfillment that members of small groups or larger communities may have toward other members. The current research explores this concept in the evaluation of Oxford Houses, residential homes designed to provide mutual support to individuals recovering from substance abuse dependence, through the use of the PSCS. Overall, the PSCS was a multidimensional scale exhibiting a cluster of negatively phrased items with a large number of highly loading items. With a three factor structure, two factors were nearly perfectly correlated and neither sex nor race bias affected the initial formulation. However, sex and race were significant (but of small magnitude) covariates in a later sample, and highly reliable subscales were formulated with five items. Taken together, the PSCS was capable of performing as an acceptable measurement model in latent analysis.

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Sense of Community Among Individuals in Substance Abuse Recovery

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Jason

Ferrari

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Journal of Groups in Addiction & Recovery

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“…Suicide rates are higher among battered women than other women (Olson et al, 2003), and the prevalence of PTSD ranges from 45%-85% (e.g., Lang, Kennedy, & Stein, 2002).…”

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Longitudinal Treatment Effectiveness Outcomes of a Group Intervention for Women and Children Exposed to Domestic Violence

Basu

Malone

Levendosky

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Journ Child Adol Trauma

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Social support can moderate negative effects of domestic violence for exposed women and children. Also, interventions targeting exposed women and children simultaneously have been shown to be more effective than those focused on children only. Since group interventions can provide such support, our study examined the effectiveness of a 10-week community-based psycho-educational group intervention for women and children. Mothers' (n = 36) and children 's outcomes (n = 20) were assessed preintervention and 3-and 6-months postintervention. High attrition limited significant findings but maternal outcomes were in the expected direction. Methodological implications and barriers to intervention research are discussed.

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“…For individuals in recovery, sense of community has been researched in sober living environments; however, the relationship between sense of community and self-efficacy has not been studied (Bishop et al, 1997; Curtis, Jason, Olson & Ferrari, 2005; d’Arlach, Olson, Jason & Ferrari, 2006; Graham et al, 2009; Olson et al, 2003). Hill (1996) recommended that research with the sense of community construct move beyond the individual level of analysis and be analyzed as a group level characteristic to better capture possible environmental effects.…”

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“…These studies investigated sense of community among Oxford House members including women and children’s houses (d’Arlach et al, 2006), women with trauma histories (Olson et al, 2003), and women with disordered eating (Curtis et al, 2005). Research clearly demonstrated the impact of psychological sense of community to Oxford House members; however, few studies have examined the specific factors that comprise sense of community (mission, reciprocal responsibility, disharmony) that contribute to this effect.…”

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“…Findings indicated that residence in Oxford Houses were associated with significantly increased abstinence self efficacy (Jason, Davis, et al, 2007), abstinence from drugs and alcohol use (Davis & Jason, 2005; Jason, Olson, et al, 2007), helping behaviors (Viola, Ferrari, Davis & Jason, 2009) and individual house members’ sense of community (Curtis et al, 2005; d’Arlach, et al, 2006; Ferrari et al, 2002; Olson et al, 2003). Nevertheless, no published study has investigated the predictive relationships between an individual’s abstinence specific self-efficacy and a house level sense of community for Oxford House members.…”

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Self-Efficacy, Self-Esteem, and Sense of Community Among Adults Recovering from Substance Abuse

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Jason²,

Mueller³

et al. 2009

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Previous researchers found that abstinence-specific self-efficacy has been predictive of the likelihood of relapse for individuals in recovery from substance abuse. Oxford Houses are sober living homes that provide mutual support and are resident funded and operated. The relationships between house level sense of community and abstinence-specific self-efficacy were examined in the present study with a sample of 754 adults living in 139 Oxford Houses nationwide in a multilevel model. A significant positive relationship between house level sense of community and self-efficacy was observed. These findings have both research and therapeutic implications.

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Physical and Sexual Trauma, Psychiatric Symptoms, and Sense of Community Among Women in Recovery

Cited by 18 publications

References 24 publications

Sense of Community Among Individuals in Substance Abuse Recovery

Sense of Community Among Individuals in Substance Abuse Recovery

Longitudinal Treatment Effectiveness Outcomes of a Group Intervention for Women and Children Exposed to Domestic Violence

Self-Efficacy, Self-Esteem, and Sense of Community Among Adults Recovering from Substance Abuse

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