Coping with Threat from Intimate Sources: How Self-Protection Relates to Loss for Women

This chapter considers the ways through which women's emotional, cognitive, and behavioral efforts to grapple with threat from intimate sources relates to various forms of personal and interpersonal loss. This analysis highlights loss-related factors that have heretofore remained relatively overlooked in practice and prevention literatures and that, if incorporated, should serve to render health promotion and protection interventions in these arenas more effective.