الفهرس 
Title : Counseling intervention to reduce violence and promote the psychosocial well-being of women who experience domestic violence
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Abstract
Background Intimate partner violence is prevalent worldwide.It results in bad physical and psychological consequences. Although the impact of physicalabuse may be more visible, psychological scarring is harder to define and report.Objectives The purpose of this study was to review married women with domestic violence and to clarify the effectiveness of counseling intervention on the reduction of domestic violence. Materials& Methods Phase one of this study was a cross-sectional descriptive in which 315 married women living in a slum area in Giza were included and invited to participate in the study and screened for domestic violence, social support, and psychological status; while phase two was an interventional phase in which all abused women detected in phase one invitedto participate in the interventional counseling program consisted of six counseling sessions. Results :The study revealed that the overall prevalence of intimate partnerviolenceamong the studied group was (37.7%); the highest form (54.0%)waspsychological abuse, followed by physical(52%) onethen severe combined abuse including sexual abuse items (48.6%). However, less than one fourth (22.2%) were exposed to harassment.Also revealed the presence of high significant p-value (0.000) reductions in all forms of violence following the intervention program Conclusions The findings indicate that group counseling intervention had a positive impact on participants, showing a decrease in violence exposure, improvement of psychological status and social support