Domestic and Family Violence Awareness Month, held annually in May, raises community awareness of the social, economic, and personal impacts of domestic and family violence, and the support available to those affected. Everyone has the right to feel safe and ...

Nurses play a crucial role in detecting, preventing and helping those experiencing domestic violence (DV). DV involves complex patterns of physically and mentally abusive behaviour and is still shockingly common in our country. For instance, one in six women and ...

Sarah* is a survivor of multigenerational family violence. She grew up in what she describes as a “dysfunctional home”. Her mother was an alcoholic who was emotionally abusive. And at age 20, her uncle sexually assaulted her. Sarah is not ...

It happens to clinicians too. That’s one of the key messages of a study investigating intimate partner and family violence among female healthcare workers in Australia. For the study, Elizabeth McLindon from the University of Melbourne and the Royal Women’s ...

Domestic violence is directly linked with widespread productivity issues at thousands of Australian workplaces, a national workplace study has found. Nearly a third of employees included in the 2011 study – many of them nurses - identified themselves as victims ...