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Handbook: Respond to Intimate Partner Violence - 10 Action Steps You Can Take to Help Your Patients and Your Practice
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Title: Respond to Intimate Partner Violence - 10 Action Steps You Can Take to Help Your Patients and Your Practice Authors: Ellen H. Taliaferro, MD & Zita J. Surprenant, MD Publisher: Medical Directions, Inc. Binding: Paperback List Price: $29.95 Pages: 97 Edition: First ISBN-13: 978-0-9789793-0-0
ISBN-10: 0-9789793-0-3 Library of Congress Control #: 2006934599 |
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Description
This practical handbook and its accompanying CD-ROM are invaluable resources for busy clinicians who must deal with the problems of domestic violence in their practices. The book is based on the award-winning online continuing medical education program, Current Management of Domestic Violence - Responding to IPV, also available at The Virtual Lecture Hall.
The authors provide thoughtful guidance on screening, documentation, safety counselling, community referral, and dealing with partner violence in special situations. The CD contains downloadable resources and Internet links from the online CME program. Read the latest reviews.
Author Bios
Dr. Ellen Taliaferro is the Medical Director of the San Mateo Medical Center Keller Center for Family Violence Intervention in San Mateo, CA. In 1998, she founded the Parkland Hospital Violence Intervention and Prevention (VIP) Center in Dallas, TX, and served as its Medical Director until returning to California in 2001. She was the co-founder and former Executive Director of Physicians for a Violence-free Society (PVS).
Dr. Zita Surprenant is actively engaged in family violence research in the areas of health care training, implementation of domestic violence protocols within hospital and private practice settings, development of hospital based advocacy for victims of domestic violence, and strangulation in domestic violence cases. She is a representative to the American Medical Association's Education Committee of the National Advisory Council on Abuse and Violence. She consults and trains nationally on the recognition and management of domestic violence in the healthcare setting. She is the lead author of the online CME program, Current Management of Domestic Violence - Responding to IPV.
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