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Social Work Response to Domestic Violence

   

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Social worker's response to family violence in a acute hospital setting

Literature ReviewIntroductionAccording to Murray and et.al., (2014), domestic violence can be defined as the violencedone by the intimate partner to the other partner, which is either physical, sexual orpsychological (Murry and et.al., 2014). There was a survey done on national crime victimization,published in 2005, stated that approximately 5.9% of women and 2.1% of men are suffering fromdomestic violence (National Institute of Justice, 2009). Family violence is also there which canbe defined as the violence done by one family member to another family member either inphysical way or abusive way. There are many organizations and systems which are working just to protect the domesticviolence and to help the victims. Murray and Grave (2012) defined those systems as the systemswhich are having many components focusing on the protection of women and the victimssuffering from domestic violence (Murray And Graves, 2012). These systems will contain legalpolicies, children protection and other social services. According to the world healthorganization, domestic violence is the major cause of the health problems and the violation ofwomen's rights. According to the statical data which was given in the articles, one out of threewomen, is suffering from domestic violence (Black and et.al., 2011). Due to such violenceissues. The Victorian government were forced to establish the “Royal Commission”, whose mainaim was to prevent the family violence. The centres for disease control stated that 2 million injuries were experienced by womenjust because of the domestic violence (Centre for disease control and prevention, 2008). But asthe time is changing and the trend also, now women prefer to separate from their intimatepartner, so that they don't have to face any type of domestic violence and there are many socialorganizations and social workers, which helps them in their mental as well as financialconditions. To prevent the women rights and the domestic violence, there are some policies,which will help in preventing the violence. Domestic violence is a major crime and serious crimeagainst the individual as well as to the society, so there should be proper policies' direction,which will provide the support to the officers and social workers, so that they can give perfectresponse to the domestic violence and to the crime. To assess the risk regarding the children and the domestic violence, Martin Skivens andHanne Stenberg presented an article, which stated that to prevent the domestic violence and

children the main hypothesis was to use different systems in the way of working of socialworkers to find out the appropriate service and helps to the victims.Swaffer (1998), has stated a protocol on domestic violence, which aims to assist theservice staff and social workers in responding the victims of domestic violence (Mary Swaffer,1998). This protocol suggests various ways to suspect that this person is suffering from domesticviolence and how to handle that situation so that the mental health of the victim should not getaffected. There is a term regarding “Domestic Violence Fatality review term” given byChanmugam, (2014) which are given as a promising approach to reduce the domestic violencefatalities and improve the services by identifying the problems and by providing proper solutionto those. (Amy chanmugam and Hobart, 2004)Apart from these, the intimate partner violence is the main cause of domestic violence,Sharron and Lilianne (2008) has written an article on that which suggest the main role of socialworkers in such scenarios, because to assist the victim, the organization have to take special careand proper procedures so that the victim can openly tell about the violence (National associationof social workers, 2008). Sometimes women don't speak about the violence due to their familyproblem, society problems and the mainly due to their children (Sharron and Lilianne, 2008).The workers will break that barrier, that is preventing women from taking the screening andtalking about the violence on them. The relationship between the social workers and domesticviolence have been disparate. Many social workers which are grounded in feminist, and theframework of social justice has high spot the connection history referred by Goodly. (Bent-goodly and et.al., 2007). An article written by Sharon (2008), tells that the physical injuries which the victims arehaving like, bruises, cuts, broken bones, head injury and in some case death due to the intimatepartner violence. This article tells that over 60% of women are having health issues who aresuffering from intimate partner violence (Sharon, 2008).As per the author Jordan (2004), if anyone is the victim of intimate partner violence, itwill result in a wide range of health symptoms, which are often the mental health difficultiessuch as anxiety disorder, depression etc. (National association of social workers, 2008).After the establishment of the royal commission by the Victoria government there weresome necessary recommendation given which are as follows: one hub for safety, this means that

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