Sentences with phrase «female victims of domestic violence»

I specialize in treatment of depression, anxiety, PTSD, substance abuse, anger management, male and female victims of domestic violence, and play therapy.

• Shadowed case manager and conducted intake assessments for female victims of domestic violence, assisted facilities manager with maintaining the transitional housing locations for the women and their children, and input case notes from clinician sessions into ServicePoint database.

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Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Joseph Kwame Apoya, the Regional Coordinator of Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) advised females, particularly the adolescents to desist from illegal and unsafe abortion and visit health facilities for expert advice and qualify services whenever they are pregnant.

And, while a large majority of domestic violence victims are female, the legal specialist has warned that by failing to offer support for other members of society, their safety is at risk.

Shirley Bennett, a legal executive at Percy Hughes & Roberts, who specialises in domestic violence cases, says: «While abuse cases involving female victims of men are the most widely reported, there are significant portions of society that feel as though they have nowhere to turn if they fall victim to domestic violence.

The department says that approximately 95 % of victims of teen domestic violence are female, based on several independent studies.

Although less is known about the consequences of domestic violence for male victims, there is evidence that men who are abused experience the same constellation of physical and psychological outcomes as their female counterparts (for reviews, see Dutton, 2007; Hines & Malley - Morrison, 2005).