Results of the European Daphne EMPoWER project (European research project on women groups suffering from gender-based violence).

Objective: You will get a theoretical and empirical overview in the field of different cultures. Special research tools will be introduced. The challenges in an ongoing research project will be shared. Methodology to be used: Qualitative and quantitative approach. The presentation will be verbal with slides. Conclusions: The theoretical and empirical findings show that psychodrama is an intervention that strengthens the empowerment of women to say no to violence, to change the victim role and to avoid the violence transmission over generation. The project will give results, limitations and outlook. Key words: Violence, Trauma, Sociodrama, Gender Abstract: The presentation will cover quantitative research tools like Spontaneity Assessment Inventory (SAI-R) and the Clinical Outcome Routine Evaluation Outcome Measure (CORE-OM). We translated into appropriate languages and faced the challenge to validate it and to assess its applicability for women suffering from male violence. American psychodramatic language is not easy to transfer comprehensibly to a cultural diverse population and even more to women suffering from male violence. Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) we are using as a third tool for validation. Hundreds of students and trainees of different subjects as well as clients of our partner were tested in order to make qualitative as well as quantitative comparisons between survivors and the so called normal population regarding the outcomes of the research tools. BDI-II seems not comfortable for normal population. One aim of an investigation coordinated by Ines Testoni from University of Padua is to find out if psychodrama is helpful in the field of women suffering from violence. With an EU Daphne grant against violence the project provided in the experimental group counseling with an integrated-ecological approach and a psychodrama intervention group. The control group got counseling. More than 20 women in each country like Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, Portugal, and Rumania received intervention which we evaluated with CORE-OM and SAI-R. There is to discuss how to overcome the problems with different languages and (sub-)cultures in (group-)intervention.