Intimate Partner Violence in the Evangelical Community: Faith‐Based Interventions and Implications for Practice

Abstract

There is a great deal of research on intimate partner violence, but few studies investigate the role of Evangelical religious and cultural values on intimate partner violence or faith‐based prevention and interventions strategies in this community. This study with 8 Evangelical pastors and 11 clinicians contributes to the literature by examining the effect of religious values and social attitudes on intimate partner violence in the Evangelical community and investigating a range of faith‐based interventions that may be utilized by mental health providers. The results focus on two themes: religious values and social attitudes and the use of faith‐based interventions.

Keywords:

• Evangelical
• faith‐based interventions
• religious values
• cultural values
• and partner violence