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Thirty years of research show alcohol to be a cause of intimate partner violence: Future research needs to identify who to treat and how to treat them
Author(s) -
Leonard Kenneth E.,
Quigley Brian M.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
drug and alcohol review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.018
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1465-3362
pISSN - 0959-5236
DOI - 10.1111/dar.12434
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , causality (physics) , anger , domestic violence , psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , human factors and ergonomics , medicine , poison control , environmental health , physics , quantum mechanics
Research over the past 30 years has demonstrated that excessive alcohol use meets all of the epidemiological criteria for causality. While neither a necessary nor a sufficient cause, excessive alcohol use does contribute to the occurrence of partner violence and that contribution is approximately equal to other contributing causes such as gender roles, anger and marital functioning. Current theories of how excessive drinking results in partner violence provide a potentially valuable framework with respect to who should be targeted for interventions with respect to alcohol‐related partner violence and what those interventions should address.