To provide an overview of the analysis and structure of the writing, this article explores impacts of Domestic Violence DV on Joan and her children Jessica, 10 years and Ryan 4 years. Joan is obviously suffering the effects of DV. WHO, (2000) states the internalized behaviors of anxiety and depression interestingly consist of what Joan is going through. Clearly she feels fear for her and her children. It is evident she is trying to self-medicate her mental health problems by using alcohol, thus she has a Dual diagnosis. Undoubtedly she is incapable of looking after her children at this time and moment. Davies, (1998) agrees, In addition she probably has financial and social risk around how she will seek accommodation and money to feed the children. Despite attempted intervention from the school Joan lacks supervision and monitoring duties with the children. Family liason officer …show more content…
Thus I was highly confronted by statistics revealing widespread exposure to DV in children. It would be confronting for Joan to think that her children are not negatively impacted by dv, perhaps she might consider the children to be too young to recognize or understand what is occurring. In contrast the children are clearly aware and significantly impacted by dv. This is reflected through when Joan discloses to the liason officer that she is worried about her mother as she is scared that her father may come back and hurt her again. Seeley and Plunkett, (2002) elaborate that this shows the children are clearly being exposed to dv. Furthermore Seeley and Plunkett, (2002) claim Joan is unable to respond to her children’s needs because of the bearing it is having on her. As a result this influences on their emotional adjustments as well as future, were they might copy the violent behavior and identify it as being