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Understanding Intimate Partner Violence in the Lives of Black Women
Length: 1.5 Hours
The purpose of this webinar is to situate intimate partner violence (IPV) in the context of historical trauma (e.g., slavery), structural violence, (e.g., racial discrimination), institutional violence, and community violence. Service professionals will learn to conduct comprehensive assessments for a range of violence that disproportionately impacts Black survivors, including nonfatal strangulation, domestic homicide, and reproductive coercion. Also, service professionals will identify strength-based, culturally responsive approaches to the treatment of PTSD and depression among Black women survivors of IPV.
Objectives:
- Analyze Intimate Partner Violence in context to other forms of violence and Trauma.
- Identify strength-based, culturally responsive approaches to PTSD
- Define types of trauma that disproportionately impact Black women.
Orignially recorded as part of IVAT's Speaker's Bureau
Carolyn M. West, Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Washington
Dr. West is Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Washington. She has authored more than 80 publications and is editor/contributor of the award-winning book Violence in the Lives of Black Women: Battered, Black, and Blue. Dr. West has worked as an expert witness in domestic violence/sexual assault cases, delivered keynote addresses, workshops, and presentations at more than 100 conferences, and has testified at Congressional Briefings in Washington, D.C. She has created innovative training materials to educate and equip professionals with the skills to provide culturally-sensitive services to survivors of color.
