The Health of Spousal Abusers in a Multicultural Society: Towards a Sociological Understanding of the Perceived Health Status of Leading Up to Spousal Abuse

Friday, March 30, 2012: 10:20 AM-10:40 AM
Yerba Buena Salon 7 (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Speaker:
Camille Tamara Cummings, M.Sc, Sociology, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine Campus


Presentation Format:
Poster

Learning Objectives:
  1. Be able to understand the risk factors that lead to perpetuating spousal abuse and assess whether or not abusive behaviour is a consequence of individual pathology, stress, alcohol abuse or other health-risk behaviour.
  2. Be able to understand how the social environment impacts on the risk factors for committing spousal abuse.
  3. Recognize the significant physical and mental health effects of perpetrating spousal abuse and determine whether or not the perpetrator also becomes a victim in the cycle and what can be done to address this.
Description:
Research indicates that in an overwhelming amount of abuse cases, men are the abusers and women are the abused (Keller et al. 1999). Most of the major advances in domestic violence research have dealt with victims but the health of male spousal abusers is yet to be thoroughly researched.