"Partner violence" refers to any harmful or abusive behavior that occurs between two people who are in a relationship or partnership. It involves any kind of physical, emotional, or sexual violence that one partner inflicts upon the other.
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Exposure to abuse, neglect and household dysfunction among adults who witnessed intimate
partner violence as children: implications for integrated health and social services.
In another recent study, the researchers evaluated a programme to prevent intimate
partner violence by working directly with men in a conflict setting.
She's worked in community mental health centers, sexual assault and intimate
partner violence centers, and group practices.
Further research is needed to identify other mediators that explain
how partner violence is transferred across generations.
Previous research largely
explores partner violence at one or two time points, and often examines a limited set of risk factors.
Psychological adjustment and victim - blaming among intimate
partner violence offenders: The role of social support and stressful life events.
One in four women will experience some form of domestic or intimate
partner violence in their lifetime.
Families were measured at baseline on maternal mental health, substance abuse, and
partner violence by interview.
This type of
intimate partner violence includes physical abuse, verbal and emotional abuse, sexual abuse, stalking and controlling behavior.
The results, published in the journal Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, show that the prevalence of
partner violence against pregnant women is high in Spain when compared with nearby countries, in which the figure hovers around 3.4 % to 8.3 %.
At the bivariate level, both CP and PA in childhood were associated with intimate
partner violence perpetration, criminality, and alcohol abuse in early adulthood.
As Lee (2012) found, in a case series analysis of couples in therapy, although an elevated risk of intimate
partner violence involving physical and verbal aggression and sexual coercion was found with problem gambling, their temporal and causal link was not always clear.
Family, domestic and sexual violence happens repeatedly — more than half (54 %) of the women who had experienced
current partner violence, experienced more than one violent incident (ABS 2017b).
Whitaker's research has focused on child maltreatment and intimate
partner violence prevention, as well as implementation of evidence - based interventions.
After two years of service provision to families, HSP was successful in linking families with pediatric medical care, improving maternal parenting efficacy, decreasing maternal parenting stress, promoting the use of nonviolent discipline, and decreasing injuries resulting
from partner violence in the home.
The study suggests that medical providers ask about intimate
partner violence when discussing birth control options with their patients, something doctors in the United States are already supposed to do:
Psychopathy rather than Machiavellianism or narcissism facilitates intimate
partner violence via fast life strategy.
It is a well - known fact that intimate
partner violence often occurs in the context of substance abuse and as a result of the inability to manage conflict in a healthy manner while intoxicated.
Her research on male victims of
female partner violence, which she conducts with Dr. Denise Hines (Clark University), has been funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Cumulative marijuana use in high school, predicted belonging to the sexual bidirectional
partner violence group compared to the no violence group.
Results of a Johns Hopkins School of Nursing - led study on intimate
partner violence show that pregnant victims saw a significant reduction in exposure to such acts after participating in the Domestic Violence Enhanced Home Visitation Program (DOVE).
From the information in these studies, the authors found that worldwide, intimate
partner violence rates among women undergoing termination of pregnancy ranged from 2.5 % to 30 % in the preceding year and from 14 % to 40 % over their lifetime.
The Anger management and intimate
partner violence program at Family Counseling Services is designed to provide treatment for an array of anger and violence problems.
The role of substance use by both perpetrators and victims in intimate partner violence outcomes
Reducing maternal intimate
partner violence after the birth of a child: A randomized controlled trial of the Hawaii Healthy Start home visitation program.
Similar to the victimization data reported above, the offending outcomes were gathered for the prevalence and frequency of perpetrating any violence, sexual violence,
dating partner violence and sexual violence, and sexual harassment.
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