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Product Description Intimate partner violence is a challenging problem that health professionals encounter on a daily basis. This volume thoroughly compiles the current knowledge and health science and provides a strong foundation for students, educators, clinicians, and researchers on prevention, assessment, and intervention.
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Book review by Student researcher in Public Health and Social Policy (Philadelphia, PA, USA) 5 Stars August 25, 2009 One of the best books I have read on the intersection of health and intimate partner violence (IPV). It is a must read and a great resource for anyone interested in IPV - advocates, physicians, nurses, researchers, students, public health workers, and policy makers in health care, public health etc. This volume gives an excellent description of the current state of the field, discusses consensus expert opinion and controversies, and clearly lays out the areas that need further exploration. It is neatly divided into sections that cover the background of the problem, issues related to identification, health impact and co-morbid conditions (including strangulation - a topic not covered very often), prevention and intervention, and important related topics (for example, weapons and IPV, IPV among the elderly and people with disabilities). For all those interested in global dimensions of the problem (as I am) - the chapter on international perspectives on IPV - provides an excellent and comprehensive overview - global prevalence, state of international IPV research, major influences on global IPV, global-level prevention and intervention strategies, social institutions and IPV prevention, and economic consequences, barriers, service gaps, and implications for policy, practice and research etc. In addition, it provides case studies of a variety of countries across different continents to highlight regional trends in IPV. The book chapters cover important areas of health policy, public health prevention, as well as the legal, social, political concerns that affect the systems and their response to the problem. A specifically important contribution of the book is its strong emphasis on prevention - one of the fundamental goals of public health. As a student who is involved in research on societal attitudes related to IPV - I found it very helpful. The book gives a great description of public health approach to prevention and the science that underlies it. A variety of programs and policies are needed that will help reduce/eliminate the climate of social tolerance that promotes and supports IPV. And, these efforts are needed at multiple levels - individual, community, national and international - to help nurture a societal climate that respects non-violence in intimate relationships. This book gives a sense of how far we have come in the field and how much more needs to be done. At the same time, it carries a tone of optimism - we do not have to accept violence as an integral part of our existence...violence is preventable. Congratulations! to the editors (Connie Mitchell and Deirdre Anglin) and all the contributors for this excellent book.
Buried Knowledge by R. McLaughlin (Skowhegan, Maine United States) 1 Stars June 26, 2009 As someone committed to, and immersed in, work with victims and perpetrators of domestic violence and harmful domestic behaviors for forty years(including work with health care providers)I would like to have access to what I must assume is a valuable text, and I would like the national and international community in this work to have access to it as well. However, at a price of nearly $100.00 I know from experience that it's impact will be limited. Indeed, because of the price, I am limited to reviewing that characteristic of this work, alone. I do not know what the specific reasons are that this text is being produced and marketed at this price point, nor what alternative marketing choices were available to the author--if any. Are the author and producers targeting the market for required course texts alone, as seems likely? Or are there other reasons? I am assuming the marketing choices were in good faith. I am very glad to know that there is Domestic Violence Education program at the California Medical Training Center at the University of California, Davis, and that Connie Mitchell, its Director, has undertaken the time and significant effort required to share her experience, knowledge and expertise in responding to domestic violence. And, even though I have not seen this text, I am making the positive assumption that it is certainly better to have this book available at this price than not available at all. However, the fact remains that I, and many, many others, must wait the number of years it takes for this book to appear, used, at a price that we in the trenches can afford, before we can directly express informed opinions on its value.
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