@article{ref1,
title="Domestic violence assessment procedures among couple therapists",
journal="Journal of marital and family therapy",
year="2009",
author="Schacht, Rebecca L. and Dimidjian, Sona and George, William H. and Berns, S. B.",
volume="35",
number="1",
pages="47-59",
abstract="Guidelines for addressing domestic violence (DV) in couple therapy have been published, but reports of whether therapists routinely follow these suggestions are few. A national survey of 620 couple therapists randomly selected from American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy members was conducted in 2000 to assess therapists' strategies for assessing DV and selecting a treatment modality when violence is discovered. Less than 4% of respondents indicated consistently following key published guidelines for DV screening (universal screening using separate interviews and questionnaires). A minority indicated that they consider the victim's safety as a factor in treatment modality selection. DV may be under-identified by couple therapists and therapists may be using conjoint therapy with couples for whom such therapy is contraindicated because of relationship violence.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0194-472X",
doi="10.1111/j.1752-0606.2008.00095.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1752-0606.2008.00095.x"
}