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An Online Resource Library on Domestic & Sexual Violence
The guidelines are designed to assist health care providers from multiple settings and in various professional disciplines in addressing domestic violence victimization, including assessment, documentation, intervention and referral information.
This document highlights the need for child health care providers to become actively involved in domestic violence prevention and provides recommendations for regular and universal screening for domestic violence in child health care settings.
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This document is one in a series of 3 guides designed to help battered women and their children in rural communities. The booklet contains information for faith leaders on how to talk and offer support to someone who is being abused by providing: 1) an explanation about domestic violence in general, 2) information about services available to battered women and their children through local programs, 3) tips to help keep victims safe and 4) a promise that battered women and their children don't have to struggle alone with violence in their lives.
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The guideline was "designed to assist clinicians by providing an analytical framework for the evaluation and treatment of patients, and is not intended either to replace a clinician's judgment or to establish a protocol for all patients with a particular condition."
The document provides recommendations for individual clinicians in addition to priority aims and suggested measures for health care systems. For highlights from this set of guidelines, please see the ICSI Summary.
