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The Brain Injury Association of Tasmania (BIAT) invites you to join us in a panel discussion on:
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THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN BRAIN INJURY AND FAMILY VIOLENCEwith special panel members
Award Winning Journalist
Clinical Neuropsychologist
SHE (Support, Help, Empowerment) CEO
Specialist Family Violence Prosecutor
Ginger Gorman
Janine Martin
Alina Thomas
Liz Avery
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Time - 6:00pmDate - 3rd November 2015Venue - 83 Melville Street, HobartRSVP to - (03) 6230 9800 or [email protected] by 30th October
VIOLENCE IS NOT ONLY A CAUSE, BUT ALSO A CONSEQUENCE OF
BRAIN INJURY
PUT IT IN YOUR CALENDAR - 3RD NOVEMBER, 6:00PM
More than 90% of all injuries secondary to domestic violence occur to the head, neck or face region. Victims of domestic violence often report being slammed against a wall, or shaken repeatedly, being directly knocked in the head, and sometimes falling unconscious for a few seconds (or longer).
Traumatic brain injury however often goes undiagnosed amongst family violence survivors. This can have a ‘knock-on’ effect in terms of victims going on to become perpetrators.
It is relatively easy to focus on brain injury as a consequence of family violence, but significantly more difficult to consider brain injury as a cause of family violence. This important yet little understood problem will be discussed by panel members, with audience members invited to ask questions.
Whilst relevant to a broad range of stakeholders, the panel is aimed at raising awareness about this issue for people working in the family violence area and intersecting services i.e. mental health, disability, criminal justice.
Ginger Gorman is a multi award-winning social justice
journalist and a 2006 World Press Institute Fellow. This
year Ginger has embarked on a five-month long journalistic
investigation into brain injury as a cause and consequence
of domestic violence. She has written two major articles on
this topic for news.com.au and the first of those stories, “'Oh
my God. What has he done?” has been short listed for a United
Nations Association of Australia Peace Media Award. Ginger’s
second story - “The surprisingly common reason John hits his
partner” – published on the 14th of October saw a readership of
over 2000 people per minute and attracted 100 comments on its
first day.
About Ginger Gorman;
Photo by Richard Tuffin
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