Exploring barriers to leaving violent intimate partner relationships.

From: ABNF Journal | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: Sheridan, Daniel J.; Williams-Evans, Shiphrah A. | Copyright information

Abstract: This article discusses the barriers abused partners may have for not leaving the violent relationship. The authors discuss procedures they will use in testing two clinical screening tools: the HARASS tool and the Pitts-Williams Inquiry tool.

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Each year about a million women in the United States experience physical, emotional, sexual, and/or financial abuse from intimate partners according to crime data collected by the US Department of Jus...

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