Mental Health Domestic Violence

Question: Discuss about theMental Health for Nursing for Domestic Violence. Answer: Introduction Family violence, domestic violence and relationship violence all this are very common terms generally used to explain the violence between the peoples who were in an intimate relationship formerly. This violence can be psychological, economic, physical, Sexual and emotional abuse or violence. Men are also sometimes victims of these family violence (Chappell Curtin, 2013). The nurses are considered as the largest group of health service provide who possess the primary ethic of caring and an agenda of health promotion and early intervention in their routine work so that the health status of the communities can be improved. Family violence was previously considered as the domain of the social workers, psychiatrist and psychologist. However, nowadays due to the important role of nurses in community setting the domain of family violence has also considered in the routine duty of the nurses. The evidences that are revealed recently shows that the violence and abuse had a great effect upon the health of the women and children, these effected women and children requires support services from the nurses and the health care workers who efficient to deal with these type of violence and abuse. Though the woman and children suffers from health consequences due to these types of family violence and abuse and it has become a serious issue for the womans intimate rel ationship still the reports of cases of family violence is increasing and becoming frequent day by day (Purcell et al., 2014). The nurse have a very significant role to play towards the prevention and early intervention of family violence. It is quite obvious that this type violence occurs across all socio-economic and cultural group. Therefore the nurses required some insight into the nature of these type of relationship so that the nurses can understand the impact of the violence over the victim very vividly and provide them a support and help them to live without the fear of the precarious personal safety. A national survey conducted by the Australian Bureau of statistics found that the cases of the domestic violence in Australia is very high and is reported that one among the five women had to face violence once in their adult life (Stanko, 2013). The family violence can cause a wide range of health problem that are associated with psychological, physical psychogenic and neurological health problems. If a woman is facing a family violence in this circumstances the nurse should immediately response to the woman who seek help and willingness to open up. The responses includes: Listening- The Nurse should Listen to Every Word of the Abused Woman. Communicating belief- It is very important to find out what is the main reason behind fear of the victim. Validating the decision to disclose- The appearance of the nurse should be like that the victim feel free share all the incidence, violence and abuse that the victim has faced. Emphasising the un acceptability of violence- The nurse should make it belief that the victim should not be treated like this. And the nurse should not ask the following question that why you stay with a person like that, what could have been done to avoid the situation, and what id the reason behind this violence and abuse (House Lundy, 2014). Reference Stanko, E. (2013).Intimate Intrusions (Routledge Revivals): Women's Experience of Male Violence. Routledge. Chappell, L., Curtin, J. (2013). Does federalism matter? Evaluating state architecture and family and domestic violence policy in Australia and New Zealand.Publius: The Journal of Federalism,43(1), 24-43. Purcell, R., Baksheev, G. N., Mullen, P. E. (2014). A descriptive study of juvenile family violence: Data from intervention order applications in a Childrens Court.International journal of law and psychiatry,37(6), 558-563. House, P., Lundy, D. S. (2014). Submission to inquiry into domestic violence in australia.