Intimate Partner Violence: Prevalence, Indicators, and Theories

Course overview

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV), also sometimes called domestic violence or spousal abuse, occurs in various forms, including physical, verbal, emotional, psychological, economic, and sexual abuse. Survivors of IPV can experience immediate and long-term health, social, psychological, and economic consequences. The complexity of an IPV experience can affect a person across multiple domains, including individual, interpersonal, familial, community, and societal. Because of its broad scope, clinicians should be aware of the many facets of IPV. Chances are that practitioners will work with individuals who have past or current experiences with IPV either as perpetrators or survivors. This intermediate-level course is the 1st in a series of 5 courses on this topic. It is designed for social workers, psychologists, marriage and family therapists, and counselors with the purpose of teaching them the prevalence of IPV, its indicators, and theories about how IPV occurs and why it is perpetuated. Please visit ce4less.com for information about our unlimited plans.