Awards

• Commended for BMA Medical Book Competition: Primary Health Care Category 2004.
• Winner of Highly Commended in the 2004 BMA Medical Book Competition - Primary Health Care Category.

Overview

Violence within the family, whether directed against children, partners or elders, profoundly disturbs our notions of what the relationship between the family and the discipline of general practice should be. GPs are doctors to whole families and yet their relationships with patients are individual ones, drawing their strength from the principles of confidentiality, mutual trust and positive regard. Violence and abuse within families necessarily challenges all of these, creating a profusion of ethical, interpersonal and practical difficulties and dilemmas. At the same time the nature of general practice confers unique opportunities to deal effectively with family violence. GPs and GP registrars will find this book an invaluable and empowering resource. It brings together a broad range of expertise and opinion from relevant specialities and disciplines and sets family violence in its historical, epidemiological and societal context. It describes in separate sections, child abuse, domestic violence and elder abuse, its presentations, diagnosis and treatment; and suggests ways forward for its prevention and early detection. It draws throughout on the experience of GPs, health visitors and social workers, providing practical safe and workable guidelines. Family violence can present to any member of the primary care team and there is much here that will be of relevance and interest to them all.

Full Product Details

Author:   Stephen Amiel (, General Practitioner, Caversham Group Practice, London) ,  Iona Heath (, General Practitioner, Caversham Group Practice, London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.90cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.747kg
ISBN:  

9780192628282

ISBN 10:   0192628283
Pages:   442
Publication Date:   06 February 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order  
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Table of Contents

Introduction to family violence: Lorna J.F. Smith, Violence in society and in the family; Felicity de Zulueta, Psychological causes of family violence; Iona Heath and Stephen Amiel, Family violence - the general practice context. Violence against children: Wendy Stainton Rogers, The context; The Presentation and diagnosis of child abuse - Jane Wynne, Physical symptoms and signs of child abuse; Judith Trowell, Psychological and emotional presentations of child abuse; Stephen Amiel, Child abuse and general practice 1 - prevention & presentation; Stephen Amiel, Child abuse and general practice 2 - action; What happens next? - Madeline Ismach, The investigation of child abuse; Alison Lowton, Legislative framework for child protection; Stephen Amiel, The Child Protection Conference; Bridget Lindley, Child protection - The family perspective; The aftermath - Vera Mayer, Legal options; Danya Glaser, Therapeutic options; Stephen Amiel, Picking up the pieces; The late sequelae of child abuse - Gill Wakley, The survivors of childhood abuse - why should primary care be involved?; Jane M. Ussher, Working with adult survivors of childhood abuse - the prevention and amelioration of psychological and physical problems; The future - Christopher Cloke, Policy, empowerment and young people in primary health care; Eileen Vizard, Working with young sexual abusers; Deborah T. Hodes & Amy B. Weir, Organising the primary health care team - practice-based training in child protection; Enid Hendry, Training issues in child protection. Violence against women by known men: Jalna Hanmer, The context Iona Heath, The meaning of domestic violence; Iona Heath, The presentation and diagnosis of domestic violence; Iona Heath, Onward referral - Inroduction; Susan Reed, The role of the Police; Nicola Harwin, The role of Women's aid and refuge support services for women and children. (Part contents).

Reviews

Unless every member of your team feels 100% confident in dealing with family violence - which is unlikely - then you need this book. Practice Nurse It was refreshing ... to turn to this book and read such a comprehensive review of the problem of family violence. It is compiled by GPs able to call upon the expertise of authors, who can write plain English, who demonstrate an awareness of the context in which family violence presents to primary care health workers ... If the lessons to be learnt from this book are heeded, then great progress will have been made to prevent this from happening. Family Practice

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