Domestic Violence
CASE young female comes to your office looking frightened and dishelved. She made an appointment with you earlier that day. She keeps looking around and appears to be nervous. She discloses that she was beaten up by her boyfriend who she lives with, and she thinks he is following her. She is frightened because he said he would kill her if she told anyone what happened. She tells you she also has a 3-year-old son with her boyfriend.
The most immediate need associated with domestic violence is safety. Within the first few days, after the attach the most important thing for this individual would be to remove her and her minor child from harms way. The therapist should survey the individual to determine resources and a possible existing social network that would allow her to remove her self from the domestic abuse situation. The lack of financial and social circumstances that would allow this individual from seeking shelter may be a large part of the reason she is seeking counseling.
The individual should be given all the local information on domestic violence shelters and systems. The responsibility of the counselor does not necessarily end here, though. If the individual is reluctant to relocate, for any number of reasons it may take some convincing and even some phone calls to ensure that the systems are in place and available to the individual and her child.
It should be stressed to the victim that in many cases of domestic violence the controlling nature of the abuser, as a precursor to physical abuse may isolate the individual from his or her social network, to attempt to retain control over the abused partner.
Because of this, it must be stressed...
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