Intimate Partner Violence
and Sexual Assault:
A Guide to Training Materials and Programs for Health Care Providers
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In the United States, physical and sexual violence committed against women by their
husbands, ex-husbands, boyfriends, or ex-boyfriends is an enormous public health problem:
each year, between 2 and 4 million women are victimized. Solving this problem
requires the cooperation of the health care providers who see first-hand the results of
violence against women by their intimate partners.
Until recently, many health care workers considered that their responsibility was over
when they treated the victim's injuries. Now, however, more and more are recognizing that they need to know how to talk to women they suspect are being abused, how
to document cases of sexual assault and intimate partner violence (IPV), and where to
refer the victims for assistance in escaping from violent situations.
One goal of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC, is to increase
the ability of health care providers to identify and treat cases of IPV and refer the
victims to agencies that can assist them further. For this reason, and because we
receive so many requests from health care providers for information on training programs
and training materials, we produced this guide to help individuals and organizations find
appropriate group-training or self-training materials.
We urge all health care providers to join the National Center for Injury
Prevention and Control by getting involved in preventing domestic violence and sexual
assault. You are often the first outside the family to see victims with injuries,
which puts you in a unique position to intervene. However, before you do so, we ask
you to get some training because, without proper training, health care providers who
confront either a victim or a perpetrator can sometimes make a difficult situation worse.
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