Domestic and Sexual Violence
Course #77791 -
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Victims of domestic and sexual violence suffer emotional, psychological, and physical abuse, all of which can result in both acute and chronic signs and symptoms of physical and mental disease, illness, and injury. Frequently, the injuries sustained require abused victims to seek care from healthcare professionals immediately after their victimization. Subsequently, physicians and nurses are often the first healthcare providers that victims encounter and are in a critical position to identify victims in a variety of clinical practice settings where victims receive care. Accordingly, each healthcare professional should educate himself or herself to enhance awareness of the presence of abuse victims in his or her particular practice or clinical setting.
- INTRODUCTION
- AN OVERVIEW OF THE ISSUE
- SIGNS OF ABUSE/VICTIMIZATION
- HEALTH EFFECTS AND IMPLICATIONS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- HEALTH EFFECTS AND IMPLICATIONS OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE
- IMPLICATIONS ON PREGNANCY AND PRENATAL CARE
- HEALTH EFFECTS AND IMPLICATIONS OF CHILDREN EXPOSED TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN SPECIAL POPULATIONS
- PERPETRATORS OF DOMESTIC/SEXUAL VIOLENCE
- ASSESSMENT AND SCREENING METHODS
- BEST PRACTICES IN FOLLOW-UP CARE FOR VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE
- BUILDING EFFECTIVE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS AND COLLABORATIONS WITH COMMUNITY-BASED AGENCIES
- APPROPRIATE RESPONSES AND DOCUMENTATION
- RESOURCES
- Works Cited
- Evidence-Based Practice Recommendations Citations
This course is designed for a wide range of behavioral and mental health professionals, including social workers, mental health counselors, and marriage and family therapists.
The purpose of this course is to provide professionals with the skills and confidence necessary to identify victims of sexual or domestic violence and to intervene appropriately and effectively.
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Identify common types of domestic and sexual violence.
- Outline signs of abuse or victimization.
- Describe the health effects and implications of domestic violence and/or sexual assault, including effects on pregnancy, developing fetuses, and child witnesses.
- Evaluate the unique risk factors for and consequences of domestic and sexual violence in special populations.
- Discuss traits of perpetrators of domestic and/or sexual violence.
- Analyze screening and assessment methods to identify victims of abuse.
- Describe appropriate responses to domestic and sexual violence, including best practices for follow-up care.
Alice Yick Flanagan, PhD, MSW, received her Master’s in Social Work from Columbia University, School of Social Work. She has clinical experience in mental health in correctional settings, psychiatric hospitals, and community health centers. In 1997, she received her PhD from UCLA, School of Public Policy and Social Research. Dr. Yick Flanagan completed a year-long post-doctoral fellowship at Hunter College, School of Social Work in 1999. In that year she taught the course Research Methods and Violence Against Women to Masters degree students, as well as conducting qualitative research studies on death and dying in Chinese American families.
Previously acting as a faculty member at Capella University and Northcentral University, Dr. Yick Flanagan is currently a contributing faculty member at Walden University, School of Social Work, and a dissertation chair at Grand Canyon University, College of Doctoral Studies, working with Industrial Organizational Psychology doctoral students. She also serves as a consultant/subject matter expert for the New York City Board of Education and publishing companies for online curriculum development, developing practice MCAT questions in the area of psychology and sociology. Her research focus is on the area of culture and mental health in ethnic minority communities.
John M. Leonard, MD, Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, completed his post-graduate clinical training at the Yale and Vanderbilt University Medical Centers before joining the Vanderbilt faculty in 1974. He is a clinician-educator and for many years served as director of residency training and student educational programs for the Vanderbilt University Department of Medicine. Over a career span of 40 years, Dr. Leonard conducted an active practice of general internal medicine and an inpatient consulting practice of infectious diseases.
Contributing faculty, Alice Yick Flanagan, PhD, MSW, has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.
Contributing faculty, John M. Leonard, MD, has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any product manufacturer or service provider mentioned.
James Trent, PhD
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The role of implicit biases on healthcare outcomes has become a concern, as there is some evidence that implicit biases contribute to health disparities, professionals' attitudes toward and interactions with patients, quality of care, diagnoses, and treatment decisions. This may produce differences in help-seeking, diagnoses, and ultimately treatments and interventions. Implicit biases may also unwittingly produce professional behaviors, attitudes, and interactions that reduce patients' trust and comfort with their provider, leading to earlier termination of visits and/or reduced adherence and follow-up. Disadvantaged groups are marginalized in the healthcare system and vulnerable on multiple levels; health professionals' implicit biases can further exacerbate these existing disadvantages.
Interventions or strategies designed to reduce implicit bias may be categorized as change-based or control-based. Change-based interventions focus on reducing or changing cognitive associations underlying implicit biases. These interventions might include challenging stereotypes. Conversely, control-based interventions involve reducing the effects of the implicit bias on the individual's behaviors. These strategies include increasing awareness of biased thoughts and responses. The two types of interventions are not mutually exclusive and may be used synergistically.