Establishing motives as a condition for developing measures to prevent domestic violence

Domestic Violence: Developing a Response

Covid-19 as a Facilitator for increasing domestic violence against women: A systematic review study

due to restrictive conditions (Quarantine) have exposed family relations to some critical issues and have increased domestic violence against women. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the reasons for the increasing domestic violence related to coronavirus (COVID 19) by systematic review study. Methods: At the first stage, we gathered original articles from 2019 to 2020 i...

Family/domestic violence: How to intervene? How to prevent?

n Ensure privacy and safety. n Establish rapport. n Use professional translators. Too often, the only translator available is a family member or a community member whose translation is ineffective in finding the truth. n Discuss the limits of confidentiality. n Frame your questions as common and routine. The patient should not feel as if she is being singled out. n Ask respectful and nonjudgmen...

Developing a practical forecasting screener for domestic violence incidents.

In this article, the authors report on the development of a short screening tool that deputies in the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department could use in the field to help forecast domestic violence incidents in particular households. The data come from more than 500 households to which sheriff's deputies were dispatched in fall 2003. Information on potential predictors was collected at the scene. Ou...

Stalking as a variant of domestic violence.

Much of what is presently known about stalking in a domestic context has been depicted by the popular press, typically following a tragic outcome, and suggests that it is a problem of increasing dimensions. However, scientific literature on this subject is quite limited. This article provides an overview of scientific data related to stalking and associated psychiatric syndromes, including erot...