Intimate Partner Violence
and Sexual Assault:
A Guide to Training Materials and Programs for Health Care Providers
This publication is out of print. It is available in electronic format only.
In the United States, physical and sexual violence committed against women by their husbands, ex-husbands, boyfriends, or ex-boyfriends is an enormous public health problem: each year, between 2 and 4 million women are victimized. Solving this problem requires the cooperation of the health care providers who see first-hand the results of violence against women by their intimate partners.
Until recently, many health care workers considered that their responsibility was over when they treated the victim's injuries. Now, however, more and more are recognizing that they need to know how to talk to women they suspect are being abused, how to document cases of sexual assault and intimate partner violence (IPV), and where to refer the victims for assistance in escaping from violent situations.
One goal of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC, is to increase the ability of health care providers to identify and treat cases of IPV and refer the victims to agencies that can assist them further. For this reason, and because we receive so many requests from health care providers for information on training programs and training materials, we produced this guide to help individuals and organizations find appropriate group-training or self-training materials.
We urge all health care providers to join the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control by getting involved in preventing domestic violence and sexual assault. You are often the first outside the family to see victims with injuries, which puts you in a unique position to intervene. However, before you do so, we ask you to get some training because, without proper training, health care providers who confront either a victim or a perpetrator can sometimes make a difficult situation worse.
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Content Source: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Violence Prevention
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