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CHAPTER 2 IDENTIFICATION, ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION WITH VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BY CAROLE WARSHAW, M.D. IDENTIFICATION, ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION WITH VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BY CAROLE WARSHAW, M.D. INTRODUCTION It has become increasingly evident over involving repeated acts of assault and a the past two decades that domestic violence pattern of continuing threats, intimidation constitutes one of the most serious public and control. Although health care health problems facing women1 in this providers see the manifestations of domes- country. Ongoing physical violence, tic violence on a regular basis, they may not psychological abuse and sexual assault connect a woman’s symptoms to the abuse from someone a woman has known and she is experiencing, know how to ask if she trusted carries serious medical, psychologi- is being battered, or feel comfortable inter- cal and social consequences. Without inter- vening if the answer is yes. vention this violence usually continues, This chapter provides a step-by-step 1 For the purposes of this manual, masculine pronouns are generally used when referring to perpetra- tors of domestic violence, while feminine pronouns are generally used to reference victims. The term “battered woman” is also used when referring to victims of domestic violence. This is not meant to detract from those cases where the victim is male or the perpetrator is female. This pronoun usage reflects the fact that the majority of domestic violence victims are female. The U.S. Department of Justice estimates that 95% of reported assaults on spouses or ex-spouses are committed by men against women (Douglas, 1991). There are no prevalence figures for domes