Intimate Partner Violence
A Health-Based Perspective
1st Edition
Published on 30. June 2009
597 pages
978-0-19-972072-9 (ISBN)
Description
Intimate partner violence is a challenging problem that health professionals encounter on a daily basis. This volume thoroughly compiles the current knowledge and health science and provides a strong foundation for students, educators, clinicians, and researchers on prevention, assessment, and intervention.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Reviewers
- I. Background
- 1. Evolving Health Policy on Intimate Partner Violence
- 2. Defining Intimate Partner Violence: Controversies and Implications
- 3. Prevalence of Nonfatal and Fatal Intimate Partner Violence in the United States
- 4. Explanatory Frameworks of Intimate Partner Violence
- 5. Economic Analysis and the Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence
- 6. International Perspectives on Intimate Partner Violence
- 7. Culture and Cultural Competency in Addressing Intimate Partner Violence
- II. Identification
- 8. Diagnosis Through Disclosure and Pattern Recognition
- 9. Risk Factors for Victimization of Intimate Partner Violence
- 10. Risk Factors for Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration: Typologies and Characteristics of Batterers
- III. Health Impact and Co-Morbid Conditions
- 11. Chronic Physical Symptoms in Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
- 12. Mental Health Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence
- 13. Substance Abuse in Intimate Partner Violence
- 14. Traumatic Brain Injury and Intimate Partner Violence
- 15. Maxillofacial Injuries in Intimate Partner Violence
- 16. Strangulation in Intimate Partner Violence
- 17. Soft Tissue and Cutaneous Injury Patterns
- 18. Intimate Partner Violence and Pregnancy
- 19. Intimate Partner Sexual Abuse
- IV. Prevention and Intervention
- 20. A Public Health Approach to Intimate Partner Violence
- 21. Primary Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence: Toward a Developmental, Social-Ecological Model
- 22. Acute Intervention for Intimate Partner Violence in the Medical Setting
- 23. Safety Planning, Danger, and Lethality Assessment
- 24. Mental Health Treatment for Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
- 25. Strength and Resilience in Battered Women and Their Children
- 26. Long-term Healthcare Intervention Models
- 27. Developing a Health System Response to Intimate Partner Violence
- 28. Obstacles and Remedies for Criminal and Civil Justice for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence
- 29. Medical and Forensic Documentation
- 30. Treatment Approaches for Men Who Batter Their Partners
- V. Important Related Topics
- 31. Stalking Victimization: The Management of Its Consequences
- 32. Weapons and Intimate Partner Violence
- 33. The Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on Children
- 34. Adolescent Relationship Violence
- 35. Intimate Partner Violence Among the Elderly and People with Disabilities
- 36. Caring for the Care Provider
- Index
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