Journal of Science and Research (Sep 2017)

Impact of domestic violence as a risk factor in academic performance

  • Gladys Merino Armijos,
  • Sonia Castillo Costa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.26910/issn.2528-8083vol2iss7.2017pp23-29
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 7
pp. 23 – 29

Abstract

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Domestic violence is a social phenomenon that has been deteriorating emotional relationships around the family system and its impact on academic performance and interpersonal relationships. A current and growing problem among students, being of such intensity that has caused negative incidents observed across this problem in different cultural and social contexts; aims to assess how domestic violence among schoolchildren is given, the factors that are involved in these events, as well as identify some interventions that have been carried out to prevent and treat these behaviors, and the results obtained. Among the factors that relate to domestic violence are the individual, family, school type and the environment. In interventions they have involved parents, teachers and / or students (as), yielding positive results with a comprehensive approach

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