Intimate Partner Violence : A Health-Based Perspective

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Intimate partner violence, also known as domestic violence, has threatened the health and safety of individuals throughout the history of human relationships. While efforts by the criminal justice system to hold perpetrators accountable emerged in the last century, scholarship and recognition of the short- and long-term impacts on the health and well-being of victims and survivors is still a fairly recent development.

Intimate Partner Violence: A Health-Based Perspective provides comprehensive, well-cited information for researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy leaders on the complex social and health threats of intimate partner violence. Written by leading scholars in the field, the chapters are organized around historical and policy perspectives, social justice constructs, trauma science, health impacts, intervention, and prevention strategies.

This comprehensive guide informs both new inquiry and improved practice by professionals in the public health, health care, and social sciences, and serves as a one-stop resource for professionals who need evidence-based insight and guidance.

Connie Mitchell, MD, MPH, is a nationally recognized leader in family health policy with expertise in strategies to end family violence. After 20 years of front-line clinical experience as a board-certified physician in Emergency Medicine, she was Editor-in-Chief of the first edition of Intimate Partner Violence: A Health-Based Perspective, which garnered the Best Medical Textbook of 2010 award from the American Medical Writers Association. For this second edition, she has added more than 16 years of experience and insight into health policy and prevention strategies as a physician leader and Deputy Director of Family Health for the California Department of Public Health.

Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD, FSAHM, is Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, a physician in Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, and medical director of community health at UPMC Children's Hospital Pittsburgh. Trained in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and medical anthropology, she has more than 30 years of practice and research experience addressing intimate partner and sexual violence prevention and health equity in clinical and community settings in collaboration with survivors, practitioners, and advocates. She is faculty for "Health Partners on IPV and Exploitation," a HRSA-supported National Training and Technical Assistance Program led by Futures Without Violence.

Brigid McCaw, MD, MS, MPH, has dedicated her career to advancing clinician training, research, and policy development, with a focus on healthcare's response to family violence, adverse childhood experiences, and trauma- and resilience-informed care. From 2001 to 2019, she served as Medical Director of Kaiser Permanente's Family Violence Prevention Program, where she spearheaded the implementation of a comprehensive approach to screening, identifying, and supporting those affected by intimate partner violence. Her systems-based perspective, combined with her background in public health and her clinical experience as an internal medicine physician, continues to shape innovative approaches to addressing intimate partner violence healthcare settings.

Kamila A. Alexander, PhD, MPH, RN, is an Associate Professor, Director of the PhD and Postdoctoral programs, and the inaugural holder of the Natalie and Wes Bush Rising Professorship at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She is founding director of the Threads Research Lab, which brings students, scientists, and communities together through research to build human connections as a transformational way to create sustainable healthy relationships. As a trained advanced practice public health nurse scientist, she uses health equity and social justice lenses to examine the socio-structural influences of trauma and violence on sexual, mental, and reproductive health outcomes among marginalized communities.