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Citation |
Dudley DR, McCloskey K, Kustron DA. J. Aggression Maltreat. Trauma 2008; 17(1): 80-102. |
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(Copyright © 2008, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group) |
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Abstract |
More than a decade ago, Hansen, Harway, and Cervantes (1991) and Harway and Hansen (1993) examined mental health providers’ ability to accurately perceive violence within couples presenting for therapy and to intervene in a manner that reduces risk. Alarmingly, 40% of therapists sampled failed to identify the presence of intimate partner violence (IPV) and none predicted lethality. Over a decade later, the present replication of Harway and colleagues’ study was completed with the expectation that today’s therapists are better prepared to identify IPV within a clinical vignette. Results show that therapists have indeed improved their ability to identify IPV. However, only one therapist accurately predicted lethality in the present study. Implications concerning IPV training for therapists are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) (journal abstract) |