domestic violence Archive
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Two weeks into marriage, she assumed that things were great. She didn’t see it coming, until it was too late. Were there any signs, that somehow, she’d ignored? “I’m really really sorry….Please don’t hit me!”, she implored. She just seemed …
Written by, Courtney Kidd, LMSW, SJS Staff Writer Childhood abuse as a predictive variable in who will have an autistic child. A study put on by JAMA Psychiatry studied 50,000 women, looking at medical records, answered questions relating to …
The Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Demonstration Initiative is a Department of Justice project aimed at monitoring high-risk domestic violence offenders and identifying potential victims and was modeled after several state wide and local projects including the Maryland Lethality Assessment Project which …
I hadn’t realized how many assumptions I had before going into a training on the relationship between Domestic Violence and Substance abuse. Although the correlations between the two have been in the back of my mind, the real dynamic of …
On Monday, February 4, 2013, “The Senate voted overwhelmingly” to reintroduce “the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act (VAWA)” after the act died on the floor the without re-authorization at the end of the last session. As lead author, U.S. Senate …
MSNBC contributor Goldie Taylor, who announced on Monday that she is giving up her gun following the Newtown massacre. After losing both her father and her brother to gun violence in St. Louis, and later being victimized by domestic violence, …
By Courtney Kidd, LMSW SJS Staff Writer Never re-victimize the victim. This is a fairly standard rule that we abide by in order to do no harm. It comes up a lot during treatment for Domestic violence, sexual trauma, trauma …
I hadn’t realized how many assumptions I had before going into a training on the relationship between Domestic Violence and Substance abuse. Although the correlations between the two have been in the back of my mind, the real dynamic of …
