Research Method Paper A Community Needs Assessment Research is conducted in a variety of different ways using different methods and methodologies. How these methods are used is imperative to how clear and accurate research will be. Community needs assessment is a research method used by many researchers that assists in finding gaps within a particular target group within a particular community. Throughout this paper I will discuss what a community needs assessment is and when and how it is…

Domestic Violence: The Silence among Men We all hear the stories of women and domestic violence but we never hear the stories of men and domestic violence. Men don’t report domestic violence as much as how women report domestic violence. Even if men do report domestic violence, there are boundaries and flaws that men face that prevents them from successfully reporting domestic violence. According to Hine and Douglas’s (2010) studies, it was shown that “25% and 50% of victims of IPV (intimate partner…

(2014), domestic violence is defined as a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship. Domestic violence can happen in the form of physical abuse, sexual, emotional, or psychological abuse. It can happen to anyone, regardless of their race or gender. Domestic violence is often life threatening for many women. Domestic violence results in 1200 deaths and 2 million injuries among women (Baker, Billhardt, Warren, Rollins & Glass, 2010). History of domestic violence shows that domestic violence is one…

Domestic Violence Among Same-sex Couples In an ideal world, every individual is entitled to their own safety and freedom. No man is supposed to inflict pain to other individual; especially if that individual is their better half. Thus, the term domestic violence is normally applied to intimate heterosexual partners who are married. Society then levies that domestic violence only exist between married couples. This primitive assumption is somewhat problematic with the emergence of varying types of…

Community There are two basic types of community: community that is defined by geography, and community that is defined by trans-geographic variables. An example of community that is defined by geography would be a neighborhood or residential area. Houses clustered together share a common space. The local economy with local businesses is also considered to be a part of the neighborhood community. Members of the community are stakeholders in the health of the community, and have shared interest in…

Domestic violence within the Asian community in Auckland, New Zealand, is a very serious social epidemic and needs to be recognized as abusive and a crime. It is a variety of behaviors operated by partners, family members, or within other close relationships. It includes physical abuse, sexual abuse and psychological abuse, which includes harassment, bullying, threatening, and allowing or causing the child to see any of the abuse done to a person. It robs women of their human rights, it takes away…

The reason behind making a Community Health Needs Assessment is that every community has health assets as well as health issues, and it is important to take them into account, evaluate on how to solve these issues using these assets, and then prioritizing on what needs to be done. The assessment may be vital to the community workers who may be able to detect the health issues in the community and do something about it, with the help of this Community Help Needs Assessment. I’ve personally chosen this…

with something serious: domestic violence. Within the last decade, there has been an increase in reported incidents of domestic violence among upper-class renowned Americans males. Martha Ross, a reporter, interviewed a few of these men. All of them blamed their actions on “accidents” or the woman ("Charlie Sheen?"). Despite these men’s excuses, they still gain support; instead of taking the abuser’s side people need to protect women. One group that understands the need to protect women from these…

What is Domestic Violence Domestic Violence is a highly prevalent public health problem with devastating effects on individuals, families and the communities. Most Americans are seen at some point in their lives by healthcare workers, and the health care setting offers a critical opportunity for early identification and even the primary prevention of abuse. It is imperative that as healthcare workers, any suspicion of domestic violence be addressed. Domestic violence can take many different forms…

The first reaction upon hearing about the topic of battered men, for many people, is that of incredulity. Battered husbands are a topic for jokes (such as the cartoon image of a woman chasing her husband with a rolling-pin). One researcher noted that wives were the perpetrators in 73% of the depictions of domestic violence in newspaper comics (Saenger 1963). Battered husbands have historically been either ignored or subjected to ridicule and abuse. In 18th-century France, a battered husband "was…