In the United States, every 9 seconds a woman is battered and every year about 4,000,000 women are battered by their partners (Domestic Violence, 2005). Since a large number of women are abused by their husbands, it is important to study the characteristics of men who batter and women who are battered. Research on this ...
Have you been a victim of domestic violence? Would you like to recover from the emotional and physical trauma that you have gone through? To help understand how you can recover from domestic violence and what type of professional help is available, I have interviewed therapist Maren Gleason, LCSW. Tell me a little bit about ...
Up until relatively recently, mental health experts believed that domestic violence had only a limited impact on children and that children who did not directly witness the violence weren’t affected at all. Perhaps the severity of domestic violence and its impact on children was just too painful for society to face. In any case, we ...
Abuse has no definitive boundaries considering it can involve anything from the occasional verbal abuse to the more extreme abuse that can include derogatory verbal, sexual, physical and mental maltreatment that occurs on a regular basis. In an ideal environment children will typically do as their parents or guardians do, not as they say. This ...
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