Healthcare Provider Training

One out of every three women treated by your staff is a potential victim of domestic abuse, and your nurses and physicians are expected to determine which of their patients are indeed victims of violence.

Many nurses and physicians ask:

The Domestic Abuse Assessment and Clinical Management Training was developed to answer these questions. The programs address domestic violence safety and professional practice issues, and equips nursing and medical staff with clinical skills to most effectively interface with patients who are victims of domestic abuse.

This is not one of your run-of-the-mill domestic violence programs given by a local domestic violence agency. This highly polished, informative presentation addresses the clinical issues most often missing in domestic abuse awareness training.

Domestic Abuse Assessment and Clinical Management Training is a series of three continuing medical and nursing educational programs designed to help healthcare providers recognize domestic abuse and clinically manage patients who are victims of violence.

The training includes the following areas of clinical education:

• Domestic violence assessment and referral
• Psychophysiology of battering dynamics and implications for healthcare
• Therapeutic communication skills that facilitate change

Learning Objectives for Standard Program

1. List 5 characteristics symptomatic of intimate partner violence (IPV)
2. Distinguish between violence as a manifestation of IPV and violence as a byproduct of aggressive behavior associated with excessive stress or substance abuse
3. Describe the relationship between spousal abuse, prenatal abuse and child abuse
4. Identify 7 examples of the subtle communication patterns of battering relationships
5. Recognize your personal biases and judgments that you bring to advocacy interactions and experience strategies for being expectation and judgment-free with those you serve
6. Discuss and demonstrate the essential keys to shining the light on domestic abuse and facilitating another in uncovering their own inner truth

The Domestic Abuse Assessment and Clinical Management Training programs are based on over 25 years of clinical healthcare expertise in psychology and therapeutic communications, and an extensive knowledge base in child abuse and intimate partner violence. The training programs are delivered by a licensed clinical psychologist and professional speaker, familiar with the healthcare provider's needs with respect to this patient population.

The recipients of these programs are physicians and nurses in family practice, internal medicine, orthopedics, emergency medicine, and obstetrics and gynecology.

The Domestic Abuse Assessment and Clinical Management Training is available in several formats for hospital in-service education, healthcare conferences and workshops, and government health and social service training programs nationwide.

All programs are customized to support the specific objectives of the event. Continuing medical education and continuing nursing education units apply.