Intimate Partner Violence Risk Assessment: A Primer for Social Workers

British Journal of Social Work

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1804-1820

  Messing, Jill Theresa ^a   Thaller, Jonel ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Domestic violence; evidence based practice; intimate partner violence; risk; risk assessment; risk factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942313708     PISSN: 00453102     EISSN: 1468263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcu012     Document Type: Article

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