Family violence: Trauma and trauma informed care

In this chapter and workshop, you’ll learn about the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV), how it affects our patients, and how this understanding should affect our approach to providing care. Many people are affected by abuse and its long-term impact on survivors. In addition to screening for violence, we suggest a “universal precautions” approach to caring for patients and providing resources.

A note about gender in this session: IPV is experienced and perpetrated by people of all genders, although frequency and impact may be different. Most available research has been done with survivors who identify as female, without differentiation of cis/trans. Therefore, much of the information in this module is about the female experience. We should insist ongoing research include inquiry into the experiences of people of all genders.

The preparatory Pressbook include:

• Trauma across the lifespan & trauma-informed care (TIC)
• Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
• Child abuse
• Elder mistreatment