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Family Violence

Guidelines and Reports

Guidelines

Family Violence Intervention Guidelines: Elder Abuse and Neglect (Aug 2007)
These Family Violence Intervention Guidelines: Elder abuse and neglect present a six-step model for health care providers to use when identifying and responding to elder abuse.

Family Violence Intervention Guidelines: Elder Abuse and Neglect

Family Violence Intervention Guidelines: Child and Partner Abuse (Nov 2002)
These Family Violence Intervention Guidelines are a practical tool to help health providers make safe and effective interventions to assist victims of violence and abuse. They are consensus based guidelines based on expert opinion, research and clinical experience. They have been written as a generic health professional guidelines, setting out principles of intervention that will apply to a number of health professions and a number of clinical settings.

Family Violence Intervention Guidelines: Child and Partner Abuse

Recognising and Responding to Partner Abuse (Jun 2003)
Along with the practical training being provided around New Zealand, this resource will help develop the necessary knowledge and skills for general practices in dealing with partner abuse.

Recognising and Responding to Partner Abuse

Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect - Recommended Referral Process for General Practitioners
The resource was developed by the Ministry of Health and Child, Youth and Family with significant input from a group of College members to ensure relevance and usefulness to GPs.

Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect - Recommended Referral Process for General Practitioners

Reports

Hospital Responsiveness to Family Violence: 48 month follow up evaluation

This external evaluation report provides information to District Health Boards and the Ministry of Health about the implementation of family violence programmes. Four rounds of hospital audits from 2004-2008 are documented and summarise the development of DHB family violence systems responses in New Zealand.

Hospital Responsiveness to Family Violence: 30 month follow up evaluation
This report is one in a series evaluating health care responsiveness to Family Violence. It presents 30 month follow-up hospital audit findings and compares them to baseline and 12 month audit findings.

Violence and NZ Young People report
This report presents a snapshot of New Zealand secondary school students’ experiences of violence including:

witnessing violence at home
safety and bullying at school
being a victim of violence
being a perpetrator of violence

The report describes characteristics of these experiences, such as who this violence was by or against, and how bad the student felt it was and provides data on how often these experiences of violence co-occur and the health issues associated with these experiences.

Violence and NZ Young People report (PDF, 3 MB - Warning, large file size)

Page last updated: 26 February 2008