Intervention programme for fathers who use domestic and family violence: Results from an evaluation of Caring Dads

Caring for people who experience domestic abuse.

Domestic abuse can affect anyone and is recognised as a global problem that results in physical, psychological and economic harm. People who experience domestic violence often attend emergency departments after an incident, but many victims go unnoticed by healthcare professionals. This article identifies and discusses some of the challenges faced by emergency nurses in recognising and managing...

Preliminary Evaluation of an Intervention Program for Maltreating Fathers

Caring Dads: Helping Fathers Value Their Children is a unique intervention program designed specifically for men who have maltreated their children and/or who have exposed their children to abuse of their mother. Over a 17-week period, this group targets change in the use of abusive parenting strategies, in attitudes and beliefs that support unhealthy parenting, and in men’s appreciation of the...

Caring for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.

Domestic Violence and Hiv/aids an Area for Urgent Intervention

That these issues are inextricably linked has been recognised recently by a number of researchers and activists who have begun to illustrate the burden that women bear being at the nexus of gender inequality, discrimination, poverty and HIV/AIDS. They are the fastest-growing group of people living with HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS 2001a), with Human Rights Watch estimating that in certain areas of Eastern ...

Caring for child victims: countering the effects of domestic violence.