Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Changing the way the health care system responds to intimate partner violence: domestic violence screening in medical and mental health care settings: overcoming barriers to screening, identifying, and helping partner violence victims
Other Titles:	Journal of aggression, maltreatment & trauma
Authors:	Phelan, Mary Beth Hamberger, L Kevin
Keywords:	Screening;Health;Service provision;Training;Mental health
Year:	2006
Publisher:	Haworth Maltreatment & Trauma Press
Citation:	13 (3/4), 2006
Notes:	Health care providers and patients agree that domestic violence presents a serious health issue that falls within the purview of medical care. The patient-physician encounter has the potential to assist domestic violence victims in considering their options of living without violence and playing a critical role in preventing future violence. Despite this possibility, many persons evaluated in the health care system do not experience the benefits of such interactions. This article reviews current research that evaluates physician, patient, and systems barriers to providing care to patients experiencing domestic violence as well as gaps in the current research and suggestions for how these barriers might be overcome. Educational initiatives, implementation of protocols, increasing environmental cues that prompt patients and physicians to discuss domestic violence may all increase the likelihood of screening and the success of interventions. Reprinted from Journal of aggression, maltreatment and trauma 2006, Page(s) 63-102 by permission of the publisher ? Haworth Press
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/13752
ISSN:	1092-6771
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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