Domestic and Sexual Violence and Abuse: Tackling the Health and Mental Health Effects

by Catherine Itzin, Sarah Barter-Godfrey, Ann Taket

Book Overview

Domestic violence, childhood sexual abuse, rape and sexual assault, and sexual exploitation through prostitution, pornography and trafficking can have many significant adverse impacts on a survivor's health and wellbeing, in the short, medium and long-term.

Taking a life-course approach, the book explores what is known about appropriate treatment responses to those who have experienced, and those who perpetrate, domestic and sexual violence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415555329
• ISBN13: 9780415555326
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"