The COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on movement restriction and family finances appear to be exacerbating domestic violence incidence and creating barriers to help-seeking for women, men and children.

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.

General practitioners and practice nurses need to be provided with greater support and training to undertake the emotionally challenging role of mandated reporters of child abuse.

There are key gaps in general practitioners’ knowledge and confidence about identifying and responding to men’s use of violence in relationships.

This article explores the challenges of identifying family members affected by intimate partner violence in primary care.

This article outlines how to respond generally to disclosures in general practice using the World Health Organization ‘LIVES’ framework.

This qualitative study sought to explore Australian GPs’ perspectives on trauma‑informed care.

This study explored Australian women’s preferences for supportive messaging from health practitioners when discussing coercive control.