Gender, alcohol and intimate partner violence: how to respond in primary care?
Abstract
Purpose
This paper's aim is to provide an overview of how to respond to alcohol use/abuse and intimate partner violence for men and women attending primary care.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper describes the role of family practitioners in identifying patients in primary care who have dual problems of substance use and intimate partner violence.
Findings
Primary care is a potential site of early intervention using brief counselling techniques for male perpetrators and female victims of intimate partner violence who also have hazardous or harmful drinking.
Practical implications
Practitioners should be aware of the overlap between these two social public health problems and how to respond.
Originality/value
Practitioners often do not identify the hidden issue of intimate partner violence.
Keywords
Citation
Hegarty, K. (2012), "Gender, alcohol and intimate partner violence: how to respond in primary care?", Advances in Dual Diagnosis, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 68-73. https://doi.org/10.1108/17570971211241930
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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