Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

Dr. Murray's primary research interest relates to the bridging the gap between research and practice in the area of domestic violence. In addition, the family violence-related topics she has addressed through her research and scholarship include the following: coping strategies used by women who have been battered, same-sex intimate partner violence, community-based approaches to domestic violence programming, dating violence among college students, applications of family systems theory to family violence, and intimate partner violence prevention research. The full-text of many of her publications can be found through NC DOCKS: http://libres.uncg.edu/ir/clist.aspx?id=894. Dr. Murray is the lead author of Responding to Family Violence, a book on conducting psychotherapy with clients impacted by various forms of family violence, as well as Sexuality Counseling: Theory, Research, and Practice, which was published in January 2016 by Sage Publications. She and Dr. Allison Crowe also are the authors of Overcoming the Stigma of Intimate Partner Abuse, which is based on the same research that informs the See the Triumph campaign they co-founded (www.seethetriumph.org). Learn more about Dr. Murray here: http://www.christinemurray.info/

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Campus Sexual Assault, Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse, Dating Violence (Teen), Domestic and Family Violence, Elder Abuse/Mistreatment, Sexual Abuse or Violence (other than campus sexual assault), Vicarious Trauma

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Child victims, LGBTQ victims, Older victims, Immigrants and refugees

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Action research, Community-based participatory research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Needs assessment, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Training and/or technical assistance

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Action research, Community-based participatory research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Needs assessment, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies, Training and/or technical assistance