Mental Health Content Topic Results

In this keynote, Ellen Tallaferro suggests that women who experience violence are likely to visit health care providers more frequently for physical and mental health problems and highlights the important role of health care providers in responding to intimate partner violence by identifying, documenting, making provision for safety, referral, and assurance to women who have been abused.

Using survey research in two California counties, this study documents high rates of domestic violence among welfare recipients, and its impact, along with mental health and substance abuse issues, on women's ability to find work.

This article describes participants of a domestic violence program, the program design, and the completers and non-completers of the program. The article examines the correlation between PTSD, DV and history of violence in the family of origin.

This manual is geared towards service providers responding to victims and community at large following incidents of mass violence and terrorism.

This document is intended as a guide for mental health providers on screening and assessment for domestic violence among clients seen in their practice settings. Questions can be easily incorporated into existing intake forms and assessment procedures. See also Responding to Domestic Violence: Sample Forms for Mental Health Providers.

A Family’s Guide to the Child Welfare System was developed through the efforts of many individuals, organizations, and groups. A knowledgeable work group advised on the direction and content of the Guide, as well as on the questions that families want to have answered.

This document provides practical tips for staying safe, checking for damage, and recovering emotionally and financially after a disaster.

Describes concerns of state domestic violence coalitions and mental health providers and/or agencies and provides model initiatives and programs that have begun the work of responding to the mental health needs of battered women and their children.

This document is a readable, easily understood review of how the brain develops, the effects of maltreatment on brain development, and implications for policy and practice.

This academic article discusses the research on abuse against men in intimate relationships with a primary focus on the psychological effects of this abuse.

Seeking Safety is an empirically studied, integrative treatment approach developed to help people attain safety from trauma/PTSD and substance abuse. This website provides implementation tools, sample topics, research summaries, articles, and assessment tools related to the program.

Presents the beliefs of the Clinical Social Work Federation who is opposed to the practice of Internet-based treatment, arguing that services cannot be delivered online because of the inherent nature of the service.