Intervention for IPV-exposed Pregnant Women

The Pregnant Moms' Empowerment Program is a five session group therapy program designed for pregnant women with a recent history of exposure to intimate partner violence. One session is administered each week with a duration of 2 hours each, for a total of ten contact hours across the course of the intervention. Intervention topics includes safety planning, social support, resilience, psychoeducation about intimate partner violence, cognitive and behavioral strategies for remediating distress, infant sleep and breastfeeding, responsive parenting, and co-parenting.

Participants in the non-directive support group condition participate in groups of the same size and with the same total contact time as women in Intervention 1. In contrast to the structured, manualized content delivered as a part of the Pregnant Moms' Empowerment Program, however, group leaders in this condition facilitate open conversation on topics that women identify together as a group.