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Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is a methodological approach where community–academic teams build equitable relationships throughout the research process. In the domestic violence (DV) field, CBPR may be particularly important when conducting research with racial and ethnic minority DV survivors, as this group faces concurrent oppressions that inform their lived experiences. To our knowledge, no systematic review has synthesized articles using a CBPR approach to explore the needs and lived experiences of racial and ethnic minority DV survivors. Using PRISMA guidelines, we conducted a systematic review of the literature, retrieving articles that used a CBPR approach to understand the needs and/or lived experiences of female racial and ethnic minority DV survivors residing in the United States. Articles were identified from peer-reviewed databases, bibliographies, and experts. Thirteen of the 185 articles assessed for eligibility were included. Articles focused on a variety of racial and ethnic minority groups, the majority identifying as African American or Latina. Collaboration occurred in multiple ways, primarily through equitable decision-making and building team members’ strengths. Several needs and lived experiences emerged including gender identity and patriarchal attitudes, racism and discrimination, the immigrant experience informing DV, poverty, shame and stigma, and the need for social support. This is the first systematic review of articles using a CBPR approach to explore the needs and lived experiences of racial and ethnic minority survivors. Implications include promoting community-based dissemination, conducting quantitative studies with larger sample sizes of DV survivors, and encouraging culturally specific services that address DV survivors’ intersectional needs.

Stigma is a significant barrier to recovery and full community inclusion for people with mental illnesses. Social work educators can play critical roles in addressing this stigma, yet little is known about their attitudes. Social work educators were surveyed about their general attitudes about people with mental illnesses, attitudes about practice with people with mental illnesses, and attitudes about students with mental illnesses. On average, educators' general and practice attitudes were not negative. However, respondents did view a student with a mental illness differently from a \"typical social work student.\" Findings suggest that we, as social work educators, must raise our awareness and address our own attitudes to support students and uphold our social work values.

Intimate partner violence continues to be a significant social problem for which we rely on the criminal justice system, specifically on police. Thus, it is important to understand the factors that shape officer decision-making in intimate partner violence cases. This study investigated the factors associated with arrest in these cases and expands the use of the Decision Making Ecology framework previously employed in child welfare research to police, another type of public service decision-maker. Using self-administered questionnaires with police officers from multiple police departments in the Chicago suburbs, this study collected information about recent calls to which officers responded. The findings of a path analysis suggest that case-related factors and officer assessment of risk are influential in the decision-making process. Specifically, the victim signing a complaint and injuries to the victim and the offender, as well as the neighbor calling 911, the sex of the victim, and drug or alcohol use of the offender influence the decision to arrest. This model also identified that both sex of the victim and use of drugs or alcohol by the offender have a relationship with officer perception of risk, which also influences arrest. This study lends to our understanding about the complexity involved in decision-making and reveals the important role of officer perception of future risk in arrest decisions. While this study was limited in its ability to test the full Decision Making Ecology framework, findings support its potential for application in future police decision-making research. The findings also have implications for future research aimed at understanding the role that officer assessment of risk plays in the decision-making process. Ultimately, understanding the actions of police can help shape police training and policy, as well as advocacy efforts of social workers to improve short- and long-term outcomes for survivors.