Mentalizing Family Violence Part 2: Techniques and Interventions

Domestic and Family Violence: Criminal Justice Interventions

DOMESTIC violence is a crime. This has been the key policy statement driving government and community reforms for the past 30 years. Criminalisation responds to the critique of early feminists that the privacy of the family created a screen behind which some men brutalised women and children. Criminalisation seeks to introduce the standards and norms of non-violence in public places, and the me...

Family violence. Part II. Hidden secrets: child abuse.

Family violence.

Family violence occurs in many forms; the most prominent are domestic violence, child abuse, and elder abuse. Family violence affects many persons at some point in their life and constitutes the majority of violent acts in our society. Although there has been considerable study of the patterns, risk factors, and interventions for each form of family violence, great controversy still exists with...

Thermal therapy, part 2: hyperthermia techniques.

Hyperthermia, the procedure of raising the temperature of a part of or the whole body above normal for a defined period of time, is applied alone or as an adjunctive with various established cancer treatment modalities such as radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Clinical hyperthermia falls into three broad categories, namely, (1) localized hyperthermia, (2) regional hyperthermia, and (3) whole-body ...

Community interventions concerning homophobic violence and partner violence against lesbians.

SUMMARY Homophobic violence and same-sex domestic violence against lesbians are described in this paper based on survey research and hotline calls conducted by a community anti-violence project. A community survey of 229 lesbians indicated that during a one-year period, about fifteen percent had been the target of homophobic violence and twelve percent had been the victim of same-sex partner vi...