Theoretical Foundations: These studies examine and test trauma recovery theory.
Saint Arnault, D. M. (2009). Cultural determinants of help seeking: a model for research and practice. Research and Theory for Nursing Practice, 23(4), 259-278.
Saint Arnault, D. M. (2018). Defining and Theorizing About Culture: The Evolution of the Cultural Determinants of Help-Seeking, Revised. Nursing Research, 67(2), 161-168.
Kita, S., Zonp, Z., & Saint Arnault, D. (2023). Initial testing of components of the cultural determinants of trauma recovery (CDTR) theory amongst American Gender‐Based violence survivors: Structural equation modelling. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 79(4), 1476-1492.
Sinko, L., Munro-Kramer, M., Conley, T., & Saint Arnault, D. (2020). Internalized Messages: The Role of Sexual Violence Normalization on Meaning-making after Campus Sexual Violence. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 30(5), 565-585.
Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Interview (CENI): These studies document the development, application and theory behind the CENI.
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Saint Arnault, D. M. (2017). The use of the Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Interview to understand and support help seeking after gender-based violence. TPM. Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 24(3), 423.
Saint Arnault, D. M., & Shimabukuro, S. (2012). The clinical ethnographic interview: A user-friendly guide to the cultural formulation of distress and help seeking. Transcultural Psychiatry, 49(2), 302-322.
Saint Arnault, D.M. (2023). Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Interviewing: Illuminating Culture and Meaning. San Diego: Cognella.
Alves, A. M., Saint-Arnault, D., Boroski, A. H., Scherer, Z. A. P., Carvalho, M. T. V. F. D., Oliveira, J. L. D., & Souza, J. D. (2023). Clinical ethnographic narrative interview about the experience of women discharged from the prison system. Texto & Contexto-Enfermagem, 32, e20220329. (In Portuguese).
PhotoExperiencing and Reflective Listening (PEARL): These studies document the development and testing of the PEARL.
Sinko, L., Munro‐Kramer, M., Conley, T., Burns, C.J., & Saint Arnault, D.M. (2019). Healing is not linear: Using photography to describe the day‐to‐day healing journeys of undergraduate women survivors of sexual violence. Journal of Community Psychology, 48(3), 658-674.
Sinko, L. & Saint Arnault, D.M. (2021). 0089 Capturing healing after gender and sexual violence using photo-experiencing and reflective listening (PEARL). Injury prevention, 27(3), A26.
Sinko, L. & Saint Arnault, D.M. (2021). Photo-experiencing and reflective listening: A trauma-informed photo-elicitation method to explore day-to-day health experiences. Public Health Nursing, 38(4), 661-670.
Sinko, L., Hah, J., Harrison, A., Saint Arnault, D., & Teitelman, A. (2022, June). Documenting my recovery: Using Photo-experiencing and Reflective Listening (PEARL) to understand and promote healing after gender-based violence. In JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING (Vol. 78, pp. 66-66).
Recovery processes: These studies aim to capture and measure recovery processes
Sinko, L., Schaitkin, C., & Saint Arnault, D. M. (2021). The Healing after Gender-Based Violence Scale (GBV-Heal): An Instrument to Measure Recovery Progress in Women Identifying Survivors. Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 8, 1-13.
Koutra, K., Burns, C., Sinko, L., Kita, S., Bilgin, H., & Arnault, D. S. (2022). Trauma recovery rubric: A mixed-method analysis of trauma recovery pathways in four countries. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(16), 10310.
Sinko, L. M., Munro-Kramer, M., Conley, T., & Saint Arnault, D. M. (2020). Internalized Messages: The Role of Sexual Violence Normalization on Meaning-making after Campus Sexual Violence. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 1-21.
Saint Arnault, D., & O’Halloran, S. (2016). Using mixed methods to understand the healing trajectory for rural Irish women years after leaving abuse. Journal of Research in Nursing, 21(5-6), 369-383.
Saint Arnault, D., & O’Halloran, S. (2017). Understanding Healing From Trauma Using Feminist Ethnographic Mixed Methods: SAGE Publications Ltd.
Kita, S., Kamibeppu, K., & Saint Arnault, D. (2022). “Knitting Together the Lines Broken Apart”: Recovery Process to Integration among Japanese Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(19), 12504.
Healing Outcomes: These studies show how healing can be measured as an outcome of Trauma recovery.
Sinko, L., & Saint Arnault, D. M. (2020). Finding the strength to heal: understanding recovery after gender-based violence. Violence against Women, 26(12-13), 1616-1635.
Sinko, L., James, R., &. Hughesdon K. (2021). Healing After Gender-Based Violence: A Qualitative Metasynthesis Using Meta-Ethnograph. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 1524838021991305.
Sinko, L., Ozaslan, Z., Schaitkin, C., & Saint Arnault, D. (2022, June). Creating and evaluating the Healing after Gender-based Violence Scale (GBV-Heal): An instrument to evaluate recovery progress in women-identifying survivors. In JOURNAL OF ADVANCED NURSING (Vol. 78, pp. 65-66).
Sinko, L., Özaslan, Z. Z., Schaitkin, C., & Arnault, D. S. (2021). Psychometric evaluation of the healing after gender-based violence scale: An instrument for cross-sectional and longitudinal assessment of recovery progress for women-identifying survivors. Journal of family violence, 1-19.
Sinko, L., Kita, S., & Arnault, D. S. (2024). Establishing a Cutoff Score for the Healing after Gender-based Violence Scale (GBV-Heal): A Brief Report. Journal of Family Violence, 1-8.
Saint Arnault, D. M., & Sinko, L. M. (2019). Hope and fulfillment after complex trauma: using mixed methods to understand healing. Frontiers in psychology, 10, 2061.
Zonp, Z., & Saint Arnault, D. (2023). The reliability and predictive validity of sense of coherence scale for American survivors of gender-based violence. Violence against women, 29(9), 1670-1686.
Saint Arnault, D. M., & Zonp, Z. (2024). Revising the original Antonovsky sense of coherence concepts: A mixed method development of the sense of meaning inventory (SOMI). Sexes, 5(4), 596-610.
Barriers to Help Seeking for Trauma Recovery (BHS-TR): These studies document the development, testing and cultural adaptation of the BHS-TR.
Saint Arnault, D., & Zonp, Z. (2022). Understanding help-seeking barriers after gender-based violence: Validation of the barriers to help seeking-trauma version (BHS-TR). Archives of psychiatric nursing, 37, 1-9.
Thorvaldsdottir, K.B., Halldorsdottir, S., Johnson, R. M., Sigurdardottir, S., & Saint Arnault, D.M. (2021). Adaptation of the barriers to help-seeking for trauma (BHS-TR) scale: a cross-cultural
cognitive interview study with female intimate partner violence survivors in Iceland. Journal of Patient- Reported Outcomes, 5(22), 1-13.
Thorvaldsdottir, K. B., Halldorsdottir, S., & Saint Arnault, D. M. (2022). Using mixed methods integration to evaluate the structure of help-seeking barriers scale: A survivor-centered approach. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(7), 4297.
Thorvaldsdottir, K. B., Halldorsdottir, S., & Saint Arnault, D. M. (2021). Understanding and measuring help-seeking barriers among intimate partner violence survivors: Mixed-methods validation study of the Icelandic Barriers to Help-Seeking for Trauma (BHS-TR) scale. International journal of environmental research and public health, 19(1), 104.
Normalization of Gender-Based Violence: these studies define and measure normalization of GBV.
Brush, B. L., Gultekin, L. E., Dowdell, E. B., Saint Arnault, D. M., & Satterfield, K. (2018). Understanding trauma normativeness, normalization, and help seeking in homeless mothers. Violence against Women, 24(13), 1523-1539.
Rodelli, M., Koutra, K., Thorvaldsdottir, K.B., Bilgin, H., Ratsika, N., Testoni, I., & Saint Arnault, D. M. (2021). Conceptual Development and Content Validation of a Multicultural Instrument to Assess the Normalization of Gender-Based Violence against Women. Sexuality & Culture, 1-22.
Trauma Recovery Interventions: these studies document interventions arising from the MiStory Group.
Lev-Wiesel, R., & Saint Arnault, D. (2019). Child Sexual Abuse: The Interaction Between Brain, Body, and Mind. Frontiers in psychology, 10.
Saint Arnault, D. M., & O’Halloran, S. (2015). Biodynamic Psychotherapy for Trauma Recovery: A Pilot Study. International Body Psychotherapy Journal, 14 (1).
Saint Arnault, D., Molloy, M., & O’Halloran, S. (2012). The use of psychodrama in biodynamic psychotherapy: Case examples from a domestic violence healing workshop. Interdisciplinary Journal of Family Studies, 17(2).
Cultural diversity in Trauma Recovery: These studies document the cultural diversity of trauma recovery.
Midhat-Najami, N., Goldner, L., Lev-Wiesel, R., & Saint-Arnault, D. (2024). “Being My Own Pillar of Support”: How Palestinian-Arab Women Citizens of Israel Cope With IPV. Journal of interpersonal violence, 08862605241265436.
Zonp, Z., Ozturk, B., Guler, A., & Arnault, D. S. (2022). Coping strategies among women exposed to Gender‐Based violence in Turkey. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 78(12), 4236-4245.
Sinko, L., Burns, C. J., O’Halloran, S., & Saint Arnault, D. M. (2019). Trauma recovery is cultural: understanding shared and different healing themes in Irish and American survivors of gender-based violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 0886260519829284.
Saint Arnault, D., & Sinko, L. (2021). Comparative Ethnographic Narrative Analysis Method: Comparing Culture in Narratives. Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 8.
Lathiotaki, K., Koutra, K., Ratsika, N., & Saint Arnault, D. (2021). Trauma recovery of Greek women who have experienced gender-based violence: a narrative research. Sexes, 2(3), 256-271.
de Souza, J., Ventura, C. A. A., de Oliveira, J. L. G., Gaino, L. V., dos Santos Monteiro, J. C., de Oliveira, J. L., … & Saint-Arnault, D. (2021). Experience of vulnerable women narrated through the body-mapping technique. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(24), 13094.
Mughal, F. B., & Saint Arnault, D. (2024). Protective factors affecting trauma recovery among female South Asian immigrant intimate partner violence survivors: a scoping review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 15248380241231602.
Szyfer Lipinsky, A., Goldner, L., Hadar, D., & Saint-Arnault, D. (2024). Predicting recovery pathways in Jewish Ultra-Orthodox intimate partner violence survivors: a structural equation modeling approach. Journal of interpersonal violence, 08862605241255738.