PIMH: Effects of domestic abuse and violence

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• Responding to domestic abuse: a handbook for health professionals
  This book provides practical guidance to healthcare professionals on working with patients who may have experienced or are experiencing domestic violence. It looks at what domestic violence is, understanding the effects, ...
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2007
  
  
• Core Info: Head and spinal injuries in children
  Head and spinal injuries in children (PDF, 608KB) is based on a systematic review of all the quality work in the world literature about inflicted head and spinal injuries in children. It will be of particular interest ...
  
  Publisher: National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
  Published Date: 2008
  
  
• Reaching out: Think Family: analysis and themes from the Families At Risk review
  This document is about setting down a marker that substantial change is needed in the way we work with those most at–risk families who need a targeted, specialised, whole–families approaches. It is also about making sure ...
  
  Publisher: Cabinet Office
  Published Date: 2007
  
  
• Child Protection, Domestic Violence and Parental Substance Misuse Family Experiences and Effective Practice
  This book draws on a wide range of evidence to explore the facts about the relationship between substance misuse and domestic violence and their effect on children, and examines the response of children's services when t ...
  
  Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• The WAVE report 2005: Violence and what to do about it
  This report is the culmination of 9 years of research into and study of the root causes of violent behaviour. What it tells us about an epidemic of violence in society today is deeply depressing and sad - and yet the Rep ...
  
  Publisher:
  Published Date: 2005
  
  
• Ending violence begins with babies
  A conference presentation by George Hosking. WAVE has made a 5 year study of the root causes of violence. There are two components to violence: the propensity to be violent, and the triggers of violence (social context, ...
  
  Publisher:
  Published Date: 2004
  
  
• Nursery crimes
  This article was published in the January 2001 edition of the magazine "Relational Justice". Violence in the U.K. is growing rapidly. A rising proportion of crimes are violent crimes, up from 1.3% in 1950 to 5.6% in 1997 ...
  
  Publisher:
  Published Date: 2004
  
  
• How Experience Shapes the Brain
  Simon Rowley, paediatrician at Auckland Hospital and Brainwave Trustee, wrote this informative article for the July 2009 Chronicle.
  
  Publisher: Family Violence & Neglect
  Published Date: 2009
  
  
• Use of Spanking for 3-Year-Old Children and Associated Intimate Partner Aggression or Violence
  The objective of this study was to examine associations between maternal and paternal use of corporal punishment (CP) for 3-year-old children and intimate partner aggression or violence (IPAV) in a population-based sampl ...
  
  Publisher: Pediatrics
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Violence against women by their intimate partner during pregnancy and postnatal depression: a prospective cohort study
  Partner violence against women is common during pregnancy and might have an adverse effect on the mental health of women after delivery. We aimed to investigate the association of postnatal depression with psychological, ...
  
  Publisher: The Lancet
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Family violence: Towards a holistic approach to screening and risk assessment in family support services
  Violence between partners, between family members and towards children is increasingly recognised as a significant problem. However, services still grapple with the best ways of identifying family violence issues and ta ...
  
  Publisher: Australian Institute of Family Studies
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• The impact of early alleged maltreatment on behavioral trajectories
  Objective: The purpose of this research was to examine the impact of alleged early child maltreatment (before age 4) on the trajectory patterns of 3 different behavioral outcomes (anxiety/depression, aggression, and atte ...
  
  Publisher: Child Abuse & Neglect
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Improving services for women and child victims of violence: The Department of Health action plan
  The document sets out how the Department of Health in partnership with others will take action in response to the report of the independent taskforce on the health aspects of violence against women and children. It aims ...
  
  Publisher: Department of Health (DH)
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Inappropriate sexual behaviour by children and young people
  Community Care and Community Care Inform are examining how evidence informs important areas of practice. This article draws on a range of research reports in order to examine children’s increasingly early awareness of se ...
  
  Publisher: Community Care
  Published Date: 2010
  
  
• Child abuse and neglect and cognitive function at 14 years of age: findings from a birth cohort
  OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between child maltreatment (abuse and neglect) and long-term cognitive outcomes within a prospective birth cohort.
  
  Publisher: Pediatrics
  Published Date: 2010