Social Work and family violence

Social Work and family violence theories, assessment, and intervention includes: introduction to family violence, child maltreatment, identifying and investigating child maltreatment, the criminal justice system and child maltreatment,...

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Thea Brown is Professor of Social Work and Director of the Family Violence and Family Court Research Program at Monash University. She has served on Family Court committees and on the Commonwealth Family Law Pathways Advisory Group. Dr Renata Alexander is Senior Lecturer in Law at Monash University and a member of the Victorian Bar. She was Deputy Registrar in the Family Court and is the author of Domestic Violence in Australia, 3rd edition. ..THEA BROWN RENATA ALEXANDER Understanding the issues facing human service and legal professionals .

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This report is not the first recent National Academies’ report to focus on the issue of family violence. It is the third and, regrettably, it may not be the last. Family violence continues to plague society and we have not yet developed either the practical interventions or evidence base to address this important social issue. When Congress passed the Health Professions and Education Partnerships Act of 1998, it issued an important challenge to government and the health professions.

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As the NCPCR policy document states, “[...] civil unrest exposes children to multiple deprivations. Children are killed, hurt and maimed as a direct result of violence. Access to food, water, sanitation, health care and schooling deteriorates during unrest. Political insecurity pushes children into situations that can circumscribe the remainder of their lives. It disrupts families and social networks that support children’s physical, emotional and social development. The NCPCR has encountered children who are displaced and forced to drop out of school as a result.

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Various hypotheses have been advanced to explain the high prevalence of mental health problems during the perinatal period, ranging from biological (e.g., hormones and neurochemical modifications) to psychological (e.g., personality types and ways of thinking) and social determinants (e.g., gender disparities in access to education and income-generating opportunities, social roles, disproportionate burden of unpaid work, exposure to family violence, low autonomy, poverty and coincidental adversity) explanations.

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