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Publications

Trauma Recovery Interventions

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).

Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Interview (CENI)

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.

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Normalization of Gender-Based Violence

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.

Theoretical Foundations

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.

Recovery processes

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.

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.

Saint Arnault, D., & O’Halloran, S. (2017). Understanding Healing From Trauma Using Feminist Ethnographic Mixed Methods: SAGE Publications Ltd.

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.

Healing Outcome

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.

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.

Sinko, L., James, R., &. Hughesdon K. (2021). Healing After Gender-Based Violence: A Qualitative Metasynthesis Using Meta-Ethnograph. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 1524838021991305.

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.

Barriers to Help Seeking

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.

PhotoExperiencing and Reflective Listening (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.