• Couples and Families Coping With Continuous Security Threat
  Presented by: Rachel Dekel, Orit Nuttman-Shwartz, Michal Shamai
• (PAPER CANCELLED) Foreign Brides in Korea Talk About Intimate Terrorism and Situational Couple Violence
  Presented by: Grace Chung

Abstracts

Foreign Brides in Korea Talk About Intimate Terrorism and Situational Couple Violence

Presented by: Grace Chung

This interview study used Johnson's typology of intimate partner violence (1995) as a conceptual framework to differentiate and contextualize the types of marital violence that marriage migrant women married to Korean men experience. A sample consisted of 17 women. For each type of violence, different structural contexts surrounding their marriage (i.e., the process of these marriages and its structural background) were revealed and different patterns of power dynamics emerged. Suggestions are made for service providers serving these women.   

Couples and Families Coping With Continuous Security Threat

Presented by: Rachel Dekel, Orit Nuttman-Shwartz, Michal Shamai

Security threat situations as war and terror expose families to many challenges such as: maintaining familial relations, taking care of the children, and pursuing life routine. However, most studies relate to the individual perspective, and do not take into consideration the couples or the family as a whole. This symposium, presents three studies, and explores the effects and the dynamics in the family when one or both spouses are exposed to such events. In addition, it examines the role of personal and contextual resources which help to mitigate the possible negative effects on family relations.