Self-harm, suicide and intimate partner violence are examples in which a counselor should be actively assessing levels of safety and risk of a client. When it comes to members of one’s community’s safety being at risk, the community mental health workers and law officials approaches to mentally disabled members should be evaluated. Counselor Safety In the article, A Survey of Safety Training in Rehabilitation Counselor Education Programs by Davis, Schultz, Anderson, and Bartley (2009), the article discusses the importance of safety training including counselor competence in identifying and responding to threatening incidents, communication, critical incident debriefing, and prevention, as well as conflict and lifestyle management. The authors express the importance of infusing safety topics into counselor education programs. An important concern in the counseling and social work field is the counselor or social worker being a target of violence.
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Taser Patricia A. Garey-Stokes English Composition 2 August 9, 2010 Abstract The issue of deaths from state to state caused by police officers use of tasers and how it affects peoples’ lives. Some states are in the midst of doing something about the problem. The amount of Taser deaths has grown more and more over time with the use of tasers. Governments are trying to change when and how an officer uses their taser guns and how it is necessary not to harm both the offender and the user. Families of the victims are suing police departments for the misuse of their taser guns, which resulted in the deaths of their love ones.
The origins of violence: Is psychopathy an adaptation? The Human Nature Review, 1, 28-36. Seligman, L. & Reichenberg, L. (2007). Selecting effective treatments: A comprehensive, systematic guide to treating mental disorders. (3rd ed.).
In typical cases, the most frequently used form of aggression is physical aggression, such as hitting or any kind of physical harm. Homosexual domestic violence does not happen as frequently as it would in a heterosexual case. In the article “Invisible Victims: Same Sex Intimate Partner Violence in the National Violence Against Women Survey”, Messinger (2011) developed an experiment, consisting of 14,182 participants, both heterosexual and homosexual, that were either abused by their partner, or were the abuser themselves. In this survey the participants were asked to fill out a survey that consisted of questions relating to four specific types of intimate violence; verbal, sexual, physical, and controlling. The results of the survey showed that the overwhelming majority of abusers and victims who were involved in verbal and controlling form of domestic violence were homosexual partners.
House program as effective because it provides a variety of services and is obtainable by those in the community. Critics may see the program as being ineffective due to its support of victims and providing repeat services to those who have already utilized there shelter and counseling program but continue to subject themselves to the abuse. Overall the program provides effective services it’s up to the client on how they want to utilize those services to their advantage. Conclusion On average nearly 20 people per minute are physically abused by an intimate partner in the United States. During a one year, this equates to more than 10 million women
1. What is meant by domestic violence? DV is any incident of threatening behavior, violence or abuse (psychological, physical, sexual, financial or emotional) between adults who are or have been intimate partners or family members, regardless of gender. 2. Who is affected by domestic violence? The victim will be affected by DV and it can happen to anyone regardless of gender, social background, religion, sexuality or ethnicity.
PTSD is commonly found among, soldiers that saw combat, car accident victims, those who experience sexual abuse, victims of natural disasters, and people who are victims of or witnessed violent crimes. PTSD is also seen among rape victims, kidnapped victims, victims of incest, hijacking, cult abuse, and terrorism (Schiraldi 2009). In this anxiety disorder where the victim fears a possible threat, often resulting in hyper arousal (Alden, Lapos, Et al).The current diagnostic statistical manual sets the guidelines for the diagnosis. To be diagnosed with PTSD, the victim must have experienced all of the following: a traumatic event and the victim must find themselves reliving the event through dreams, flashbacks or expressive play. The victim must then show signs of avoidance socially, to their thoughts, inability to recall information about the event, and/or restricted views of their future.
I think this book will help in letting us know what is to be expected of law enforcement agencies, and how they think. Intimate Warfare: Regarding the Fragility of Family Relations. By Justine Van Lawick, (2009) APA citation on previous page. This book shows us that family relations is not always a safe place as we hope that it would be, this book studies violence in the domestic circle which conjures up a lot of questions. People within family relationships are likely to be threatened, humiliated, smacked, raped or murdered.
Since the husband is there at the scene and has not defended his self from when she said he is the abuser. The wife can make a citizen arrested on her husband or the officer can make the arrest. The husband should be arrested immediate because the proof is there and his silence answer the abuse questions itself (Hess Orithmann, C. and Hess, K.M., 2013, p 310). What are the legal requirements that the police officers have to consider and follow? The legal requirements that they have to follow are based on the evidence that is present looking into the physical signs of the aggressors.