Nursing 2220A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Workplace Violence, Risk Assessment, Homicide
13 Mar 2018
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In almost every case of domestic homicide, we found that the people around the victim know what was going on (cid:271)ut didn"t kno(cid:449) (cid:449)hat to do a(cid:271)out it. Concerns: safety, performance, legislative responsibilities / obligations. Miob framework understanding domestic violence: recognize, respond, refer, report. Respond: sncit conversation, risk assessment, every precaution reasonable in the circumstance. Domestic violence: happens across all social classes in all types of workplaces, perpetrators can. Patterns of abusive behaviour: physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, economic, spiritual, stalking. Origins of our understanding: thirty years of research. Initially understood as violence that only happened to women. Power and control wheel ellen pence, battered women controlled movement. What about male victims: men also experience domestic violence, they need to be supported and encouraged to seek help, there is recent research that helps us make sense of conflicting statistics. Situational couple violence: most common / arguments escalate to violence. Coercive control: abusive partner controls and coerces, pattern of behaviour.
