Citation

Roberts AR. Fam. Soc. 2007; 88(1): 42-54.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Alliance for Children and Families, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

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Abstract

Domestic violence continues to be one of the most pervasive, traumatic, life-threatening, and harmful family problems in society today. A new 5-level classificatory schema or continuum of the duration and severity of woman battering is proposed for assessment and intervention. The continuum is based on 501 in-depth interviews with battered women in emergency shelters, police departments, and a large state women's prison. The underlying goal of identifying different types of battering relationships is to provide social workers and forensic specialists with psychosocial indicators that can be used as a basis for early case-finding, crisis intervention, and preventive intervention. Crisis intervention protocols and other intervention strategies are needed with abused women throughout Norm America. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) (journal abstract)