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Health Care Responses to Perpetrators of Intimate
Partner Violence

The following links are from the American Medical Women’s Organization, Domestic Violence Health Care Provider Education Project (online CME curriculum).

Health Care Responses to Perpetrators

http://www.dvcme.org/webtrainer/display.cfm?course=1&page=74

When Perpetrator and Victim Share the Same Provider

http://www.dvcme.org/webtrainer/display.cfm?course=1&page=75

Appropriate Referrals and Programs for Perpetrators

http://www.dvcme.org/webtrainer/display.cfm?course=1&page=76

Should the direct link s to the pages not work, try the homepage http://www.amwa-doc.org , go to Medical Education, and then to the Domestic Violence Health Care Provider Education Project. When you are in the curriculum, go to Unit 8 “The Perpetrator”.

Excellent and more detailed information on this topic can also be found in the chapter on Health Care Responses to Perpetrators of Domestic Violence, in Improving the Health Care Response to Domestic Violence: A Resource Manual for Health Care Providers by Carole Warshaw, M.D. and Anne L. Ganley, Ph.D.. You can order this manual as a hard copy or view/download the chapter online at the Family Violence Prevention Fund web site at http://endabuse.org/programs/healthcare/files/trainersmanual/Chapter3.pdf

Other relevant reading:

Lundy Bancroft, When the Batterer is Your Patient (Spring, 1996). Medical Encounter Vol. 12, No. 2

Ferris LE, Norton PG, Dunn EV, Gort EH, Degani N., Guidelines for managing domestic abuse when male and female partners are patients of the same physician. The Delphi Panel and the Consulting Group. JAMA. 1997;278:851-7.

Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That? Inside The Minds of Angry and Controlling Men, New York, NY, Putnam’s, 2002

In Vermont

The Domestic Abuse Education Project runs education groups for men who batter in Chittenden, Franklin and Washington Counties. They also provide consultation and education for community partners. http://www.spectrumvt.org/domesticabuse.html -Phone: 802-864-7423

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