Campus Location
Dallas Campus (Online)
Date of Award
7-2025
Document Type
Dissertation
Department
Organizational Leadership
Degree Name
Doctor of Education
Committee Chair or Primary Advisor
Dr. Robert Haussmann
Second Committee Member or Secondary Advisor
Dr. Sandy Harris
Third Committee Member or Committee Reader
Dr. Bryan Patterson
Abstract
This study proposed to identify leadership strategies that assisted intimate partner violence-impacted Black women in urban areas to become leaders in their homes and communities as perceived by mental health professionals. Nine mental health professionals and counselors from an Ohio urban area completed a questionnaire and a semi-structured interview to provide data about Black women in intimate partner violence-impacted relationships living in a metropolitan area in Ohio. Deprived of valuable leadership resources and gifts that the women can offer their families and communities, investigators omitted the women's plights in their studies. Four research questions framed this qualitative case study design approach. The critical paradigm or worldview, bolstered by the feminist theoretical school of thought, enhanced by the black feminist theory, supported the appropriate research focus. Quota sampling, consisting of the nine professional participants, comprised a convenience sample. The study utilized NVivo to provide a flexible, precise coding structure and assist in the thematic analysis process. Study results demonstrated that professionals brought women to higher heights by recognizing the women's unique natures and exposing their cultural differences. The professional helpers embraced differences and employed them to develop appropriate goals, methods, strategies, and techniques to assist the women in overcoming challenges that threatened to destroy them. Future researchers should have medical or counseling credentials, include Black IPV-impacted women in more studies, and target more IPV-associated studies.
Keywords: Black, culture, domestic violence, intimate partner violence, resilience
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Recommended Citation
Benton, Dawn H. Dr., "Leadership Emergence Among Black Urban Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: A Qualitative Ecploration" (2025). Digital Commons @ ACU, Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 927.
https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/etd/927