Intimate Partner Violence

Written by professionals in the fields of clinical service and research, Violence Against Women provides a broad perspective into the current scientific understanding of how people from a variety of ages and backgrounds come to be harmed from intimate partner violence (IPV). Transcending national, cultural, and socioeconomic boundaries, this text explores the issues that underpin family violence, including the impact of IPV on children.

Paul Thomas Clements, PhD, RN
Paul Thomas Clements is an Associate Clinical Professor. A psychiatric / forensic specialist, he is additionally a Certified Gang Specialist and Certified in Danger Assessment. His clinical experience includes serving as Assistant Director/Bereavement Therapist at the Homicide Bereavement Center at the Office of the Medical Examiner in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and he was appointed as the Director of Operations for the City of Philadelphia Department of Public Health. He is an experienced therapist, forensic consultant, and critical incident/trauma response specialist with over 20 years' experience in management/administration and crisis intervention. Dr. Clements was involved in the television and printed news media, as well as interviewed on National Public Radio (NPR), related to discussions regarding the offender, victims, and survivors of the Virginia Tech shootings. Dr. Clements has numerous publications and conference presentations regarding stress, trauma, violence and aggression, coping after violent death, and exposure to interpersonal violence and crime. Dr. Clements is an Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurse (APRN, BC) with national board certification as a Specialist in Child, Adolescent, and Family Mental Health Nursing. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychiatric Forensic Nursing from The University of Pennsylvania.

Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, RN, SANE-P, SANE-A
Jennifer Pierce-Weeks, manager of the Forensic Nurse Examiner Program at Memorial Hospital in Colorado Spring, Colorado, is a past-president of the International Association of Forensic Nurses (IAFN) and has served on the IAFN Board since 2006. She previously served for twelve years as the director of the State of New Hampshire Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program. She has 23 years nursing experience and is an educator and expert in the areas of child and adult sexual assault, as well as domestic violence.

Karyn E. Holt, PhD, MSN
Karyn Holt is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. A nurse educator for over thirteen years, she is an experienced educator teaching both traditionally and online. She is a well-known distance education speaker tracing the development of education through the millennium transition and beyond. She is also a Certified Nurse Midwife and finds teaching both patients and students to be her passion in life. She has been a nurse midwife for sixteen years. She holds a Master of Science in Nursing with Nurse Midwifery specialization and certification from Georgetown University and a Doctor of Philosophy in Health Science from Touro University. Angelo P. Giardino, MD, PhD
Angelo Giardino is the medical director of Texas Children's Health Plan, a clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, and an attending physician for the Texas Children's Hospital's forensic pediatrics service at the Children's Assessment Center in Houston, Texas. Angelo Giardino completed his residency and fellowship training in pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Immediately after his fellowship training, Angelo Giardino became the assistant, and then the associate, medical director at Health Partners of Philadelphia, where he had primary responsibility for utilization management, intensive case management, and health care data analysis. He also shared responsibility for the plan's quality improvement program. Additionally, he began the Child Abuse and Neglect Team for Children with Special Health Care Needs, which was funded by a three-year grant from a local philanthropy. In 1998, he was appointed associate chair of clinical operations in the Department of Pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP).