Intervenția echipelor multidisciplinare comunitare în asistența femeilor-victime ale violenței în familie

Abstract

Domestic violence exists in various societies, including in the Republic of Moldova. This constitutes a serious form of violation of human rights. At the same time, domestic violence has a strong gender character, based on the social relations of inequality between women and men. From 2007 until now, the Republic of Moldova has continuously improved its mechanisms to prevent and combat domestic violence and adopted normative acts to ensure a systemic approach for preventing and combating this phenomenon, but also to guarantee an effective response of specialized institutions in given cases. In order to prevent and combat domestic violence, but also to provide assistance to victims, the local public authorities establish the multidisciplinary team at the community level. In this article, is analyzed the intervention of multidisciplinary teams in cases of domestic violence and assistance of women-victims of domestic violence, in 12 communities from Cahul and Ungheni districts. The data were collected through the sociological survey in 12 communities, focus group discussions with members of multidisciplinary teams and interviews with women victims of domestic violence in 2019 and 2023. 1 The research results highlight changes in identification procedures, registration, case management, assistance and referral of women-victims of violence, as well as in the work of multidisciplinary teams, including challenges and opportunities for improving the work of multidisciplinary teams.