Public Health Nurses' Responses to Domestic Violence: A Report from the Enhanced Domestic Abuse Intervention Project

1999 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 359-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie F. Shepard ◽  
Barbara A. Elliott ◽  
Dennis R. Falk ◽  
Ronald R. Regal
Author(s):  
A. BURGESS Deseri ◽  
Lisa Weed Phifer

Domestic violence is a growing public health problem that affects children nationwide. In fact, research estimates that anywhere between three and 17.8 million children witness domestic abuse each year5. Therefore, it is likely that teachers will regularly encounter students in their classroom who have been exposed to domestic violence. The impact of domestic violence is widespread, affecting academic performance, behavior, and social development. Teachers can make a positive impact by learning how best to identify and support these students. The following chapter will provide an overview of domestic violence, developmental considerations, and strategies for helping children who have been affected by it.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (S1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliane Feliciano

March 2020 marked the closure of thousands of workplaces, schools and other services to comply with government-issued lockdowns to prevent the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) across the Canadian population. While the intent of the stay-at-home orders was to provide safety for the surrounding communities from the pandemic, many victims of domestic abuse soon found themselves confined to the root of their trauma for the sake of public health. Dubbed the “pandemic within a pandemic” by the media, 54% of responding victim services have reported an increase in the number of served domestic violence victims between mid-March and early July of 2020 [1,2], and police-reported calls for domestic disturbances have also increased 12%, according to data compiled from 17 police services across Canada [3].


2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna Meagher-Stewart ◽  
Megan Aston ◽  
Nancy Edwards ◽  
Donna Smith ◽  
Eileen Woodford ◽  
...  

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Underwood ◽  
Andrea Baumann ◽  
Anne Ehrlich ◽  
Jennifer Blythe

Episteme ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Jack Warman

Abstract Domestic violence and abuse (DVA) are at last coming to be recognised as serious global public health problems. Nevertheless, many women with personal histories of DVA decline to disclose them to healthcare practitioners. In the health sciences, recent empirical work has identified many factors that impede DVA disclosure, known as barriers to disclosure. Drawing on recent work in social epistemology on testimonial silencing, we might wonder why so many people withhold their testimony and whether there is some kind of epistemic injustice afoot here. In this paper, I offer some philosophical reflections on DVA disclosure in clinical contexts and the associated barriers to disclosure. I argue that women with personal histories of DVA are vulnerable to a certain form of testimonial injustice in clinical contexts, namely, testimonial smothering, and that this may help to explain why they withhold that testimony. It is my contention that this can help explain the low rates of DVA disclosure by patients to healthcare practitioners.


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