Fundamentalist Protestant Christian Women: Recognizing Cultural and Gender Influences on Domestic Violence

The authors use multicultural, family process and structure, and gender concepts to provide a framework for understanding the supports for and barriers to mental health that are experienced by abused fundamentalist Protestant Christian (FPC) women. For FPC women who are victims of domestic violence, gender, culture, and family process and structure may intersect to prohibit or facilitate healthy life choices. Suggestions for providing counseling services to this population are given.