assistance with prevention of pregnancy. Factor three discussed independent coping where the participants had a strong preference for assistance with coping techniques. Factor four entailed assistance with spirituality where the young women wished for assistance with spirituality related to the grief and loss associated with abortion. Ninety-eight percent of participants wanted a professional intervention offered in relation to abortion care (Curley, M., & Johnston, C. (2014). The authors emphasized the psychological effects of abortion on young women and analyzed possible methods for assisting with the management of psychological distress. Participants personal preferences in abortion care were identified and insight on potential program development was provided to help young women cope with the psychological distress associated with abortions.
Iverson, Litwack, Pineles, Suvak, Vaughn, & Resick (2013), engineered a level IV prospective research design analyzing intimate partner violence. The purpose of the study was to review the effects of PTSD symptoms and the coping strategies used to combat them to determine the possibility of a reoccurrence of intimate partner violence on female victims. Women selected for analysis experienced intimate partner violence for 3 months minimum in the past year with reports of a minimum of two severe acts of violence or four minimal acts of violence, but the most recent experience was between two weeks to six months prior to the study. Sixty-nine women were selected to complete a baseline assessment and a follow-up assessment six months later. Four assessment scales were administered to each woman, “the Conflict Tactics Scale-2 (CTS-2), the Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale (PDS), the Dissociative Experiences Scale-II (DES-II), and the Coping Strategies Inventory (CSI)” (Iverson et al., p. 104, 2013). After the assessments were completed the researches provided a post-conference and a safety presentation to the women. Roughly 46% of the women experienced a minimum of one revictimization at the 6-month follow update. The authors found women who cope with disengagement experience higher risks, whereas women who engaged in engagement coping styles experienced lower risks of revictimizations (Iverson et al., 2013). The article was organized, concise, and well written and it did achieve the purpose of the research. The study emphasized the importance of appropriate and effective coping strategies. Unhealthy coping techniques do not help alleviate the situation and can affect the woman negatively by increasing the chances of her becoming revictimized.
Romero, D. H., Riggs, S. A., & Ruggero, C. (2015) conducted an inquiry reviewing the experience of student veterans. The level IV descriptive study was created to review the associations of coping skills, family/social support, and psychological symptoms of college student veterans to determine appropriate interventions for the population. One hundred thirty-six student veterans of the U.S. military were included. The participants then completed a background collection survey to gather health history, demographics, military service, and college experience. The authors discovered a lack of association between dependent variables and psychological distress in college student veterans. However, the study proved a significant association between the presence of avoidant behaviors in coping and