Sentences with phrase «physical effects of violence»

The most successful work, however, is less concerned with the visible physical effects of violence but is instead narrative and documentary — intimate portraits of emboldened survivors who share their harrowing stories in unequivocal detail.

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«All girls have the right to live free from violence and coercion, without being forced into marriage or the lifelong physical and psychological effects of female genital mutilation.

The effects of child sexual abuse include increased risk for development of severe mental, physical and behavioral health disorders; sexually transmitted diseases; self - inflicted injury, substance abuse and violence; and subsequent victimization and criminal offending.

On the other hand, we also found that exposure to high levels of physical domestic violence has a protective effect in terms of satisfaction with social support for those also exposed to high levels of intra-parental psychological abuse.

This buffering effect of family bonds was seen when the domestic violence between their parents / caregivers was reported as either physical or psychological violence.

The most obvious potential side - effect of emotional abuse is that it often escalates into physical violence.

Violence: Brief scenes of serious domestic disputes between a man and a woman include verbal arguments, physical altercations, choking and stabbing (with blood effects).

(1) the temperament and developmental needs of the child; (2) the capacity and the disposition of the parents to understand and meet the needs of the child; (3) the preferences of each child; (4) the wishes of the parents as to custody; (5) the past and current interaction and relationship of the child with each parent, the child's siblings, and any other person, including a grandparent, who may significantly affect the best interest of the child; (6) the actions of each parent to encourage the continuing parent child relationship between the child and the other parent, as is appropriate, including compliance with court orders; (7) the manipulation by or coercive behavior of the parents in an effort to involve the child in the parents» dispute; (8) any effort by one parent to disparage the other parent in front of the child; (9) the ability of each parent to be actively involved in the life of the child; (10) the child's adjustment to his or her home, school, and community environments; (11) the stability of the child's existing and proposed residences; (12) the mental and physical health of all individuals involved, except that a disability of a proposed custodial parent or other party, in and of itself, must not be determinative of custody unless the proposed custodial arrangement is not in the best interest of the child; (13) the child's cultural and spiritual background; (14) whether the child or a sibling of the child has been abused or neglected; (15) whether one parent has perpetrated domestic violence or child abuse or the effect on the child of the actions of an abuser if any domestic violence has occurred between the parents or between a parent and another individual or between the parent and the child; (16) whether one parent has relocated more than one hundred miles from the child's primary residence in the past year, unless the parent relocated for safety reasons; and (17) other factors as the court considers necessary.

The effects of domestic violence are permanent and far - reaching, affecting the economic, emotional, mental, and physical lives of everyone involved.

The prevalence and physical and psychological effects of intimate partner violence (IPV), defined as physical, emotional, financial and / or sexual abuse perpetrated against the victim by an intimate partner are well documented among women in the general population.1 — 7 Little is known, however, about the extent and consequences of IPV among immigrant women.

In addition, the court might consider the emotional effect on the child or the potential physical harm if the parent plans to move in with someone who has a history of child abuse, domestic violence or substance abuse.

Intimate partner violence (IPV) against women is prevalent globally, with 30 % of women reporting physical and or sexual IPV in their lifetime.1 In addition to the known detrimental effects of IPV on women, 2, 3 witnessing IPV is increasingly being recognised as an important adverse exposure for children.

While public health intervention should be aimed at eliminating maternal IPV, understanding factors that can buffer the effects of domestic violence in children may inform prevention strategies that can potentially benefit not only their psychological well - being, but also their physical health.

The booklet highlights a number of points including the effects of family violence on children's developing behavioural, emotional, biological and physical systems.

There is now a large body of research which shows that experience of family violence can have negative effects on children, including impacts to their physical and mental health.

Although research findings on prevalence are inconclusive, they generally find that women and men report similar levels of violence when the contexts, motives and consequences are not considered.6 When they are considered, studies assessing IPV perpetrated by men compared to women often report gender differences regarding the types of violence, reasons for the violence, context in which the violence occurs and consequences of the violence.6, 7 For example, studies assessing differences in IPV find men's violence against women to be more severe, threatening and controlling8 — 10 and involve longer - lasting victimisation, fear of bodily injury or death, more injuries and more adverse health effects.5, 11, 12 It has also been found that women tend to use physical violence out of anger, not being able to get the partner's attention or in self - defence and retaliation, 11 whereas men often use it as a means to exercise coercive control.13, 14

Workload, in particular tight deadlines, too much work and too much pressure or responsibility, a lack of managerial support, organisational changes at work, violence and role uncertainty are identified causes of work - related stress.1 These factors are antecedents of sickness presenteeism which is mediated by mental and physical health.2 At the individual level, chronic stress produces long - term deleterious effects in health, namely, cardiovascular diseases, 3 burn - out, anxiety and depression.4 Sickness absence in Europe is associated with psychosocial work factors.5 The link between work performance, stress and health poses an important challenge to workers, employers and organisations in general, as stress should be monitored and mitigation measures implemented accordingly.6

MSPCC's work focuses on preventing or mitigating the effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) including physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, neglect, household substance abuse, household mental illness, and domestic violence.

Study 1 Abuse Perpetration Foshee and colleagues (2005) found significant main effects of treatment condition on psychological abuse perpetration, moderate physical violence perpetration, and sexual violence perpetration.

There was a moderate effect of treatment on physical violence victimization.

There was a moderate effect of treatment on physical violence victimization in the expected direction at all four follow - up waves regardless of conditions at baseline, indicating both primary and secondary prevention effects.

Implicit in such pronouncements of the courts of the Northern Territory is a recognition that such violence has an extremely deleterious effect on the mental and physical integrity and dignity of women.

The study confirms the low rate of violence among Italian psychiatric in - patients, the major relevance of clinical rather than socio - demographic factors in respect of aggressive behavior, the possibility of a no seclusion - no physical restraint policy, not associated either with higher rates of hostility or violence or with more severe drug side effects.

First, that unauthorised, unjustified and inexcusable violence used to enforce a promised marriage is extremely serious criminal conduct because of the effect that such violence has on the mental and physical integrity and dignity of women.

(1) the temperament and developmental needs of the child; (2) the capacity and the disposition of the parents to understand and meet the needs of the child; (3) the preferences of each child; (4) the wishes of the parents as to custody; (5) the past and current interaction and relationship of the child with each parent, the child's siblings, and any other person, including a grandparent, who may significantly affect the best interest of the child; (6) the actions of each parent to encourage the continuing parent child relationship between the child and the other parent, as is appropriate, including compliance with court orders; (7) the manipulation by or coercive behavior of the parents in an effort to involve the child in the parents» dispute; (8) any effort by one parent to disparage the other parent in front of the child; (9) the ability of each parent to be actively involved in the life of the child; (10) the child's adjustment to his or her home, school, and community environments; (11) the stability of the child's existing and proposed residences; (12) the mental and physical health of all individuals involved, except that a disability of a proposed custodial parent or other party, in and of itself, must not be determinative of custody unless the proposed custodial arrangement is not in the best interest of the child; (13) the child's cultural and spiritual background; (14) whether the child or a sibling of the child has been abused or neglected; (15) whether one parent has perpetrated domestic violence or child abuse or the effect on the child of the actions of an abuser if any domestic violence has occurred between the parents or between a parent and another individual or between the parent and the child; (16) whether one parent has relocated more than one hundred miles from the child's primary residence in the past year, unless the parent relocated for safety reasons; and (17) other factors as the court considers necessary

The present study suggests that this acceptance may have been premature... Results from this study indicate that the use of the IT / SCV typology does not consistently work better than a simple measure of the breadth of violent acts used by respondents» husbands to predict negative outcomes of partner violence victimization... [and] both of these measurement strategies fail to examine the general effect of husbands» control... The preliminary empirical evidence reported here suggests that these victims of coercive control are an unrecognized category of victims... IPV researchers should focus on the dynamics of coercive control in intimate abuse whether or not this control occurs in the context of physical violence.