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• Living With the Dominator
• Domestic violence - its effects on children: for parents and teachers
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Domestic violence - its effects on children: for parents and teachers

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This factsheet is one of a series produced by The Royal College of Psychiatrists for parents, teachers and young people entitled Mental Health and Growing Up.

The aims of these factsheets are to provide practical, up-to-date information about mental health problems (emotional, behavioural and psychiatric disorders) that can affect children and young people. This factsheet looks at the effects that domestic violence can have on children, and offers advice about how to try and avoid these problems.

You can find more factsheets, and more information about The Royal College of Psychiatrists at http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk.