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  "abstract": "Background: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major global public health concern with severe physical, psychological, and social consequences, strongly associated with chronic stress and diminished wellbeing. IPV often remains under-identified within healthcare and social care settings, with shame, guilt, and stigma acting as barriers to help-seeking. Resilience—the capacity to regulate emotion, adapt, and recover following adversity—has emerged as a central concept in understanding recovery after IPV exposure. Person-centered, trauma-informed care facilities recovery by grounding care in the individual's needs, experiences, and resources and by accounting for how trauma affects the body and the capacity to trust care practitioners.\n\nAim: The aim of this study was to analyze person-centered care and support interventions aimed at strengthening resilience in individuals exposed to IPV.\n\nMethods: An integrative literature review was conducted following Whittemdore and Knafl's methodology. It included 12 peer-reviewed studies published between 2015 and March 2026, retrieved from CINAHL and APA PsycInfo. Nine studies were qualitative, two quantitative, and one mixed methods; all appraised using the CASP framework.\n\nResults: Findings were based on 544 participants exposed to IPV (537 women, 7 men, aged 15–73 years), alongside the perspectives of 31 care and support professionals, drawn from studies conducted across eight countries. Three main themes were identified: a safe, trusting, and accessible care relationship as a foundation for resilience; empowerment through participation, autonomy, and reclaiming control; and the mobilization of individual and social resources for long-term recovery, encompassing strength-based coping and supportive networks. Person-centered, trauma-informed care characterized by safety, trust, and genuine participation was central to strengthening resilience. Organizational barriers, along with gendered dynamics affecting autonomy could hinder access to support and recovery.\n\nConclusion: Person-centered, trauma-informed care and support can strengthen resilience by fostering trust, participation, and empowerment. Resilience emerged as a dynamic, nonlinear process shaped by individual resources, relationships with care and support staff, and structural conditions. Trauma's effects on the nervous system offer a neurobiological basis for why consistency, predictability, and genuine attentiveness are prerequisites for effective care, not merely good practice. These findings underscore the need for training in trauma-informed, person-centered approaches across all professions supporting individuals exposed to IPV.",
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    "Institution for Health Sciences, University West",
    "Center for Holistic Psychiatry Research (CHoPy)",
    "High Institute of Nursing Professions and Health Techniques Fez, Dhar El Mehraz Hôpital Al Ghassani"
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  "published": "2026-10-27",
  "publisher": "Frontiers Media SA",
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  "title": "Person-centered, trauma-informed care and support for resilience after intimate partner violence: an integrative review through a neurobiological lens",
  "title_text": "Person-centered, trauma-informed care and support for resilience after intimate partner violence: an integrative review through a neurobiological lens",
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  "venue": "Frontiers in Public Health",
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