Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence in Maine: Identification, Documentation, Reporting and Trauma-Informed Responses – Katelyn Baxter-Musser

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Summary

• Regardless of your area of focus, you’re likely to encounter Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence at some point in your practice.

• But abuse can be difficult to detect after the physical signs of violence have faded.

• What defines abuse and how does one properly assess for it?

• And when it’s brought into the light, domestic violence can raise professional dilemmas that leave you caught between responsibilities surrounding confidentiality, autonomy, and your wider responsibilities to protect victims.

• It’s a complicated situation that can leave you unsure of how to proceed and troubled knowing that failure to recognize and properly respond to domestic violence can have dire consequences.