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In response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic several adaptations have allowed us to continue to provide one form of recovery-oriented psychotherapy to persons with psychosis: Metacognitive Insight and Reflection Therapy (MERIT). These successful adaptations have included the incorporation of patients' experience of the pandemic and the exploration of challenges from temporary changes in therapy platforms to deepen reflections about patients' self-experience, their experience of intersubjectivity and their own agentic responses to psychosocial challenges. RESUMEN En respuesta a la pandemia del coronavirus (COVID-19) varias adaptaciones han permitido que sigamos facilitando una de las formas de psicoterapia orientada a la recuperación de las personas que padecen psicosis: la terapia de percepción metacognitiva y reflexión (MERIT). Estas adaptaciones satisfactorias incluyen la incorporación de la experiencia de los pacientes de la pandemia y el uso de los desafíos que plantean los cambios temporales en las plataformas terapéuticas con objeto de profundizar en la reflexión sobre la autoexperiencia de los pacientes, su experiencia en intersubjetividad y sus propias respuestas a los desafíos psicosociales.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant problem for immigrant women in the U.S. There are a number of unique risk factors and help-seeking barriers (e.g., patriarchal beliefs, lack of social support, immigration status, language as a barrier, limited knowledge about and access to resources) that contribute to the likelihood of immigrant women being in and remaining in violent relationships. As a result, immigrant women often feel isolated, alone, and silenced in their attempt to address their IPV. However, we know less about the IPV experience of Arab immigrant women in the U.S. as these women hold multiple marginalized identities (e.g., racial/ethnic, gender, immigration status) and their IPV experiences may be potentially more complicated. Therefore, it is critical for researchers and practitioners to understand better about the intersectionality of these identities and their IPV experience. While many theories use a one-dimensional approach to understand the cause of IPV (e.g., individual-based, feminist), Heise’s (1998) ecological model suggests the cause of IPV is at the integration of individual, microsystem, exosystem, and macrosystem factors. Using this ecological model as a theoretical framework, I examined the IPV experience of Arab immigrant women in the U.S. using a qualitative framework. The focus of this study is to examine how the individual, microsystem, exosystem, and macrosystem factors impact the lived experience of Arab immigrant women who are survivors of IPV.