Domains
Domestic Violence Resources
Clincal guidelines
- Guidelines for the Health Care of Victims of Intimate Partner Violence (California Version)
- National Consensus Guidelines on Identifying and Responding to Domestic Violence Victimization in Health Care Settings
- Identifying and Responding to Domestic Violence: Consensus Recommendations for Child and Adolescent Health
- AMA Clinical Guidelines - "Diagnostic and Treatment Guidelines on Domestic Violence"
- Health and DV Pocket Card
- Competencies for DV Medical Forensic Examiners
- Effective Intervention in Domestic Violence an Child Maltreatment Cases: Guidelines for Policy and Practice
Resources in California
- California Alliance Against Domestic Violence
- California Family Violence Referral Directory
- California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board
- EPIC
- Family Violence Prevention Fund
- SafeStart
- State of California Commission on the Status of Women
- Statewide California Coalition for Battered Women
Legal issues
Identification
Screening Tools
- Abuse Assessment — English or Spanish
- Brief Screening Tool
- Polinksy Child Safety Questionnaire
- Definition of IPV and Abusive Behaviors List
- Domestic Violence poster
- FISTSS — Adolescent Violence Screening
- HEADSS — Adolescent Health Screening
- Identification — Barriers & Strategies
- Nature and Consequences of Abuse
- Barriers to ID — Promoting Disclosure
- Screening Questions for Possible Victims of DV
"Screen to End Abuse" is a Telly Award winning training video produced by Desert Productions in collaboration with the California Medical Training Center, the Family Violence Prevention Fund, and the University of California, San Francisco. It contains 5 short clinical vignettes featuring clinicians talking to patients in the pediatric setting, with an adolescent, during the annual gynecologic exam, with a man in a same-sex relationship, and with an older woman using a Spanish interpreter. It can be purchased at low cost at www.endabuse.org.
Assessment
- Danger Assessment — English or Spanish
- Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Teen Abuse Assessment
Intervention
Documentation
Health policy and domestic violence
The California State Leadership Team on Health Care and Domestic Violence formed these recommendations between January 1, 2001 and June 30, 2003. They are based on over 30 months of work in which the members discussed the current state of health care services for victims of violence and how services could be expanded or improved.
More DV education for health professionals
- ACOG (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists)
- American Medical Women's Association — Domestic Violence Project Site
- Domestic Violence Applied Research Documents — Brief summaries of current research from the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence
- Physicians for a Violence-Free Society Curriculum
- SAEM (Society for Academic Emergency Medicine)
- Web MD