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Family Matters: Responding To Intimate Partner Abuse in General Practice Settings
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Location
The Glen Hotel
24 Gaskell Street Eight Mile Plains, QLD 4113 AustraliaDescription
This education will build on the existing domestic and family violence training, and associated follow up visits, as part of the overall Brisbane South PHN Recognise, Respond, Refer approach.
Violence against women in intimate partner relationships is a widespread problem in Australia, and intimate partner violence is the greatest health risk factor for women in their reproductive years. Not only do women experiencing violence access health care for a range of conditions, but general practitioners are often the only clinicians who see both the victim and perpetrator of this abuse.
In 2018, Queensland’s Domestic and Family Violence Death Review and Advisory Board highlighted “the clear role that health practitioners can play in responding to both victims and perpetrators" and pointed to evidence “that suggested practitioners did not adequately respond to open and repeated disclosures of abusive and threatening behaviours to intimate partners and family members”. This education session will draw on the RACGP White Book’s Chapters 4 and 5 (‘Intimate partner abuse: responding and counselling strategies’, and ‘Dealing with perpetrators in clinical practice’).
Audience: General Practitioners and Nurses
Learning Outcomes
- Identify strategies within the general practice to respond to violence within intimate partner relationships.
- Apply communication skills needed to effectively recognise, respond and refer, particularly with reference to perpetrators of intimate partner violence.
- Recognise the role of general practice in contributing to family safety within broader service system responses to intimate partner violence.
Time:
6.30pm Registration
7.00pm Start
9.00pm Finish
Cost: Free, meals provided
For more information about this event please phone our Events Coordinator, Raquel McCready on 07 3864 7522 or email rmccready@bsphn.org.au
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