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Inquiring Into Our Past: When The Doctor Is A Survivor Of Abuse, Lucy M. Candib, Judith A. Savageau, Linda F. Weinreb, George W. Reed
Inquiring Into Our Past: When The Doctor Is A Survivor Of Abuse, Lucy M. Candib, Judith A. Savageau, Linda F. Weinreb, George W. Reed
Judith A. Savageau
BACKGROUND: Health care professionals like other adults have a substantial exposure to childhood and adult victimization, but the prevalence of abuse experiences among practicing family physicians has not been examined. Also unclear is the impact of such personal experiences of abuse on physicians' screening practices for childhood abuse among their patients and the personal and professional barriers to such screening. METHODS: We surveyed Massachusetts family physicians about their screening practices of adult patients for a history of childhood abuse and found that 33.6% had some experience of personal trauma, with 42.4% of women and 24.3% of men reporting some kind …
Bungy Jump Into The Unknown - Women Escaping Domestic Violence, Megan Levy
Bungy Jump Into The Unknown - Women Escaping Domestic Violence, Megan Levy
Megan Levy
What happens to those women coming out of a women’s refuge? Can they live away from Domestic Violence? Do they have parenting skills? To answer these questions a case study methodology combined with theories from Humanistic, Social and Community Psychology was implemented to analyse the contents of the meetings held by the refuge’s Self-Help Group,. This group consisted of 11 women, ages 29 to 48 yo: Five of them still in domestic violence; and the rest escaping DV: two, in the refuge, and four who had left 12 to 36 months ago. The first finding: When a woman is still …