This article uses the Sense of Safety Theoretical Framework to name processes that build sense of safety in healthy relationships. It enables recognition of patterns of coercive control.

Understanding the sophisticated craft and practical skills of generalist care could help both GPs and health policy makers value, respect and navigate the challenges of this complex important work.

This article explores a generalist understanding of how trauma interacts with health, including the biology of trauma and the clinical implications of trauma-informed care.

Strangulation has potential significant sequelae such as carotid dissection, hypoxic brain injury and laryngeal injury.

Exposure to domestic and family violence has lifelong impacts on physical health and life expectancy and increases hospitalisation and healthcare usage.