IPV: Beyond a Gender-Based Framework

About the Course

More than 20,000 phone calls are placed to domestic violence hotlines nationwide each day. While some evidence suggests heightened risk in some populations, individuals of all gender identities and expressions experience intimate partner violence. Although the mainstream domestic violence and intimate partner violence movement have tended to focus on the needs of and services to heterosexual, cisgender female victims, the same abusive power and control tactics, risk factors, trauma, and silencing that impacts those victims also equally impacts victims in LGBTQ communities. This course will focus on moving beyond a gender-based framework for understanding IPV, differentiating between conflict and abuse, assessing for IPV, and intervening to reduce violence in relationships. This course includes an intersectional approach to assessments such as the risk assessment and clients’ resources to reduce violence and harm. The course utilizes trauma-informed and survivor-centered practices.

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Course Overview

ESTIMATED COURSE LENGTH: 1.50 hours 

CE CREDITS: 1.50 (continuing education/contact hours for social workers, psychologists, counselors, and marriage and family therapists

TARGET AUDIENCE: Mental Health Practitioners

LEVEL OF INSTRUCTION: Introductory

PREREQUISITE(S): None

INSTRUCTIONAL METHOD: Recorded video format (non-interactive)

ACCESSIBILITY ACCOMMODATIONS: Closed captioning of audio components. In order to request further accessibility accommodations, please email support@psychhub.com

COMPLETION REQUIREMENTS: To obtain your CE certificate, learners must complete a pre-test (not scored), progress through all course segments, complete a participant evaluation, and obtain a score of 80% or higher on a post-test. Learners are expected to complete the quiz within 3 attempts. If unable to do so, the learner will need to re-review the course segments.

FINANCIAL/COMMERCIAL SUPPORT STATEMENT: This course has no commercial support.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST:  This course has no potential conflict of interest or outside commercial support. Psych Hub's conflict of interest statement is found in the footer of the training center.

GRIEVANCE AND REFUND POLICIES: Grievance and refund policies are found in the footer of the training center.

PARTICIPATION COSTS:  The cost to participate in this CE activity is included in the subscription registration fee.

COURSE CREATION DATE: 1/12/2023

 

Learning Objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Define key differences between IPV and domestic violence, as well as key impacts
  • Identify key characteristics of trauma-informed and survivor-centered practices in IPV treatment
  • Detail at least two guidelines for assessing IPV in heterosexual and LGBTQ relationships
  • Use information from assessment to develop a complex safety plan that addresses at least three levels of intervention

Course Outline

  1. Statistics
  2. Define IPV
    1. Contrast with DV
      1. Depends on state law and definition
    2. Types of abuse
  3. Impact of IPV
    1. Trauma
    2. Devaluation
    3. Loss of autonomy and agency
    4. Legal repercussions
    5. Loss of wage and economic growth
    6. Legal custody of children
  4. Defining trauma-informed
  5. Defining survivor-centered practices
  6. Assessing IPV: Moving beyond a gender-based framework for assessing IPV. An intersectional approach to assessment
    1. Conflict versus abuse
    2. Context, Intent, Motivation, Impact
    3. Pattern, Agency/Autonomy, Entitlement/Privilege, Fear/Dread, Isolation
    4. Some questions to ask
    5. Shared behaviors activity
      1. Gets their partner drunk
      2. Refuses to take the kids to school
  7. Danger assessment
  8. Safety planning

CE Information


American Psychological Association (APA)
Psych Hub is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Psych Hub maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Psychologists completing this course receive 1.50 continuing education credits.

Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB)
Psych Hub, #1750, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 08/20/2024 – 08/20/2027. Social workers completing this course receive 1.50 clinical continuing education credits.

California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT)
Psych Hub is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. Psych Hub maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content. CAMFT Approval #1000074. Course meets the qualifications for 1.50 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC)
Psych Hub has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7051. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Psych Hub is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. Counselors completing this course receive 1.50 continuing education hours.

New York State Education Department - Licensed Mental Health Counselors (NYSED-LMHC)
Psych Hub, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0257. New York State licensed mental health counselors completing this course receive 1.50 contact hours.

New York State Education Department - Marriage & Family Therapists (NYSED-MFT)
Psych Hub, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0109. New York State marriage and family therapists completing this course receive 1.50 contact hours.

New York State Education Department - Psychology (NYSED-PSY)
Psych Hub, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0208. New York State licensed psychologists completing this course receive 1.50 contact hours.

New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work (NYSED-SW)
Psych Hub, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0699. New York State social workers completing this course receive 1.50 contact hours.

Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling
Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider Number 50-45376. Participants completing this course earn 1.50 continuing education credits.

Experts


Alice Mills Mai, MA, LMHC
Alice Mills Mai, MA, LMHC, NCC is a New York-licensed Mental Health Counselor (#9097) and National Certified Counselor. She serves as Clinical and Practicum Supervisor for STEPS to End Family Violence. Her work focuses on issues of violence and criminalization in marginalized communities.