Physical Health Consequences of Physical and Psychological Intimate Partner Violence
Archives of Family MedicinePublished 1 May 2000
Ann L. Coker
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Abstract
Psychological IPV has significant physical health consequences. To reduce the range of health consequences associated with IPV, clinicians should screen for psychological forms of IPV as well as physical and sexual IPV.
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