Kimberly Smith
CJHS/410
Instructor: JASON SKEENS
June 1, 2015
Skills and Characteristics of Mental Health
Domestic violence has not always been considered a defilement of the rule. Though mankind have beaten, ill-treated and victimized their spouses or intimate companions for a elongated time, traditionally, spouse or companion mistreatment has been regarded as a "customary" part of matrimony or intimate interactions. First towards the end of the twentieth century, the 1970’s, has domestic violence been demarcated a crime, vindicating intervention by the criminal justice system. This essay will discuss the services provided by the crisis intervention human service delivery system, the general characteristics and skills needed to effectively deliver mental health and crisis intervention services and how the characteristics, skills, and actions needed by an agent of the government differ from those skills needed by social workers or practitioners in mental health.
There has been much discussion rotating about the use of the term "domestic violence" to define intimate violence or spouse abuse. Study has revealed that in violence amongst intimate spouses, men are frequently the attackers and women characteristically are the fatalities. In the devastating majority of cases stated to the police, and included under the classification of domestic violence in police records, women are the fatalities. For example, study proposes that about 85% of the wrongdoings included under the classification of domestic violence is violence amongst intimate partners (present or ex-husbands or steadies), in which the fatality is characteristically a woman and the criminal characteristically the man. The rest of the
Skills and Characteristics of Mental Health
parties comprise parents, siblings, in-laws, or roommates (Erez, 1986; Erez & Kessler, 1997). Police are the first link of protection for fatalities