Implications of Brain Injury in Abused Women for Advocacy and Health Care.

Jacquelyn Campbell, a prolific researcher and revered expert on intimate partner violence (IPV), discusses the poorly understood reality of traumatic brain injury (TBI) afflicting women who have experienced IPV. She notes that although there is evidence of high rates of TBI among battered women, emergency and other medical services often fail to detect TBI in these patients. Ignorance of the implications of TBIs may lead clinicians to misunderstand how TBI survivors present and behave. Among other topics, the author describes how TBI presents in survivors, how TBIs affect their helpseeking behaviors, and the best ways to effectively assess for the presence of a TBI and to provide support, solace, and services for those so affected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]