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Intimate partner abuse and health professionals : new approaches to domestic violence / edited by Gwenneth Roberts, Kelsey Hegarty, Gene Feder.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh ; New York : Churchill Livingstone, 2006Description: xvi, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0443074933
  • 9780443074936
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.82927 22
LOC classification:
  • RC569.5.F3 I577 2006
  • RA1122 .I58 2006
Contents:
Foreword / Beverley Raphael -- Foreword / Iona Heath -- Ch. 1. The history of intimate partner abuse and health professionals : what have we inherited? / Gwenneth Roberts -- Ch. 2. What is intimate partner abuse and how common is it? / Kelsey Hegarty -- Ch. 3. Impact of intimate partner abuse on physical and mental health : how does it present in clinical practice? / Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Kathryn Laughon and Anne Woods -- Ch. 4. Educating health professionals : changing attitudes and overcoming barriers / Carole Warshaw, Angela Taft and Heather McCosker-Howard -- Ch. 5. Identification of intimate partner abuse in health care settings : should health professionals be screening? / Kelsey Hegarty, Gene Feder and Jean Ramsay -- Ch. 6. Clinical response to women experiencing intimate partner abuse : what is the evidence for good practice and policy? / Gene Feder, Jean Ramsay and Mary Zachary -- Ch. 7. How is intimate partner abuse experienced by childbearing women? / Heather McCosker-Howard and Anne B. Woods -- Ch. 8. What is the impact of intimate partner abuse on children? / Jennifer Smith -- Ch. 9. Managing the whole family when women are abused by intimate partners : challenges for health professionals / Angela Taft and Judy Shakespeare -- Ch. 10. Medico-legal issues : when women speak into silence / Jocelynne Scutt -- Ch. 11. Cultural competence and intimate partner abuse : health care interventions / Michael A. Rodriguez and George Saba -- Ch. 12. Intimate partner abuse and indigenous peoples / Judy Atkinson -- Ch. 13. Gay and lesbian relationships and intimate partner abuse / Michael V. Relf and Nancy Glass -- Ch. 14. Intimate partner abuse research and training : the way forward / Kelsey Hegarty, Gene Feder and Gwenneth Roberts.
Summary: This book, based on recent research, reveals the complex issues of identification and intervention with survivors of intimate partner abuse within in the health system. Editors Roberts, from University of QLD, and Hegarty from University of Melbourne.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Beverley Raphael -- Foreword / Iona Heath -- Ch. 1. The history of intimate partner abuse and health professionals : what have we inherited? / Gwenneth Roberts -- Ch. 2. What is intimate partner abuse and how common is it? / Kelsey Hegarty -- Ch. 3. Impact of intimate partner abuse on physical and mental health : how does it present in clinical practice? / Jacquelyn C. Campbell, Kathryn Laughon and Anne Woods -- Ch. 4. Educating health professionals : changing attitudes and overcoming barriers / Carole Warshaw, Angela Taft and Heather McCosker-Howard -- Ch. 5. Identification of intimate partner abuse in health care settings : should health professionals be screening? / Kelsey Hegarty, Gene Feder and Jean Ramsay -- Ch. 6. Clinical response to women experiencing intimate partner abuse : what is the evidence for good practice and policy? / Gene Feder, Jean Ramsay and Mary Zachary -- Ch. 7. How is intimate partner abuse experienced by childbearing women? / Heather McCosker-Howard and Anne B. Woods -- Ch. 8. What is the impact of intimate partner abuse on children? / Jennifer Smith -- Ch. 9. Managing the whole family when women are abused by intimate partners : challenges for health professionals / Angela Taft and Judy Shakespeare -- Ch. 10. Medico-legal issues : when women speak into silence / Jocelynne Scutt -- Ch. 11. Cultural competence and intimate partner abuse : health care interventions / Michael A. Rodriguez and George Saba -- Ch. 12. Intimate partner abuse and indigenous peoples / Judy Atkinson -- Ch. 13. Gay and lesbian relationships and intimate partner abuse / Michael V. Relf and Nancy Glass -- Ch. 14. Intimate partner abuse research and training : the way forward / Kelsey Hegarty, Gene Feder and Gwenneth Roberts.

This book, based on recent research, reveals the complex issues of identification and intervention with survivors of intimate partner abuse within in the health system. Editors Roberts, from University of QLD, and Hegarty from University of Melbourne.

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