Intimate Partner Violence
A Health-Based Perspective
2nd Edition
Will be published approx. on 17. January 2026
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1216 pages
978-0-19-775899-1 (ISBN)
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Intimate partner violence, also known as domestic violence, has threatened the health and safety of individuals throughout the history of human relationships. While efforts by the criminal justice system to hold perpetrators accountable emerged in the last century, scholarship and recognition of the short- and long-term impacts on the health and well-being of victims and survivors is still a fairly recent development.
Intimate Partner Violence: A Health-Based Perspective provides comprehensive, well-cited information for researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy leaders on the complex social and health threats of intimate partner violence. Written by leading scholars in the field, the chapters are organized around historical and policy perspectives, social justice constructs, trauma science, health impacts, intervention, and prevention strategies.
This comprehensive guide informs both new inquiry and improved practice by professionals in the public health, health care, and social sciences, and serves as a one-stop resource for professionals who need evidence-based insight and guidance.
Intimate partner violence, also known as domestic violence, has threatened the health and safety of individuals throughout the history of human relationships. While efforts by the criminal justice system to hold perpetrators accountable emerged in the last century, scholarship and recognition of the short- and long-term impacts on the health and well-being of victims and survivors is still a fairly recent development.
Intimate Partner Violence: A Health-Based Perspective provides comprehensive, well-cited information for researchers, educators, practitioners, and policy leaders on the complex social and health threats of intimate partner violence. Written by leading scholars in the field, the chapters are organized around historical and policy perspectives, social justice constructs, trauma science, health impacts, intervention, and prevention strategies.
This comprehensive guide informs both new inquiry and improved practice by professionals in the public health, health care, and social sciences, and serves as a one-stop resource for professionals who need evidence-based insight and guidance.
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2nd Revised edition
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English
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New York
United States
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Professional and scholarly
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Connie Mitchell, MD, MPH, is a nationally recognized leader in family health policy with expertise in strategies to end family violence. After 20 years of front-line clinical experience as a board-certified physician in Emergency Medicine, she was Editor-in-Chief of the first edition of Intimate Partner Violence: A Health-Based Perspective, which garnered the Best Medical Textbook of 2010 award from the American Medical Writers Association. For this second edition, she has added more than 16 years of experience and insight into health policy and prevention strategies as a physician leader and Deputy Director of Family Health for the California Department of Public Health.
Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD, FSAHM, is Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, a physician in Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, and medical director of community health at UPMC Children's Hospital Pittsburgh. Trained in Internal Medicine,
Pediatrics, and medical anthropology, she has more than 30 years of practice and research experience addressing intimate partner and sexual violence prevention and health equity in clinical and community settings in collaboration with survivors, practitioners, and advocates. She is faculty for "Health Partners on IPV and Exploitation," a HRSA-supported National Training and Technical Assistance Program led by Futures Without Violence.
Brigid McCaw, MD, MS, MPH, has dedicated her career to advancing clinician training, research, and policy development, with a focus on healthcare's response to family violence, adverse childhood experiences, and trauma- and resilience-informed care. From 2001 to 2019, she served as Medical Director of Kaiser Permanente's Family Violence Prevention Program, where she spearheaded the implementation of a comprehensive approach to screening, identifying, and supporting those affected by intimate partner violence. Her systems-based perspective, combined with her
background in public health and her clinical experience as an internal medicine physician, continues to shape innovative approaches to addressing intimate partner violence healthcare settings.
Kamila A. Alexander, PhD, MPH, RN, is an Associate Professor, Director of the PhD and Postdoctoral programs, and the inaugural holder of the Natalie and Wes Bush Rising Professorship at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She is founding director of the Threads Research Lab, which brings students, scientists, and communities together through research to build human connections as a transformational way to create sustainable healthy relationships. As a trained advanced practice public health nurse scientist, she uses health equity and social justice lenses to examine the socio-structural influences of trauma and violence on sexual, mental, and reproductive health outcomes among marginalized communities.
Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD, FSAHM, is Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, a physician in Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, and medical director of community health at UPMC Children's Hospital Pittsburgh. Trained in Internal Medicine,
Pediatrics, and medical anthropology, she has more than 30 years of practice and research experience addressing intimate partner and sexual violence prevention and health equity in clinical and community settings in collaboration with survivors, practitioners, and advocates. She is faculty for "Health Partners on IPV and Exploitation," a HRSA-supported National Training and Technical Assistance Program led by Futures Without Violence.
Brigid McCaw, MD, MS, MPH, has dedicated her career to advancing clinician training, research, and policy development, with a focus on healthcare's response to family violence, adverse childhood experiences, and trauma- and resilience-informed care. From 2001 to 2019, she served as Medical Director of Kaiser Permanente's Family Violence Prevention Program, where she spearheaded the implementation of a comprehensive approach to screening, identifying, and supporting those affected by intimate partner violence. Her systems-based perspective, combined with her
background in public health and her clinical experience as an internal medicine physician, continues to shape innovative approaches to addressing intimate partner violence healthcare settings.
Kamila A. Alexander, PhD, MPH, RN, is an Associate Professor, Director of the PhD and Postdoctoral programs, and the inaugural holder of the Natalie and Wes Bush Rising Professorship at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing. She is founding director of the Threads Research Lab, which brings students, scientists, and communities together through research to build human connections as a transformational way to create sustainable healthy relationships. As a trained advanced practice public health nurse scientist, she uses health equity and social justice lenses to examine the socio-structural influences of trauma and violence on sexual, mental, and reproductive health outcomes among marginalized communities.
Editor
Emeritus FacultyEmeritus Faculty, University of California Davis; Deputy Director, Center for Family Health, California Department of Public Health (retired)
Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Public Health, and Clinical and Translational ScienceDistinguished Professor of Pediatrics, Public Health, and Clinical and Translational Science, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine
Clinical and Health Policy ConsultantClinical and Health Policy Consultant, UCLA-UCSF ACEs Aware and Family Resilience Network (UCAAN); California Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Initiative
Natalie and Wes Bush Rising Professor and Associate ProfessorNatalie and Wes Bush Rising Professor and Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Content
Foreword by Jacquelyn Campbell
Foreword by Ruth M. Glenn
Preface
Section I: Understanding IPV
Chapter 1: Defining Intimate Partner Violence
Kathleen Basile, Sharon Smith, Norah Friar
Chapter 2: Epidemiology of Intimate Partner Violence
Sabrina C. Boyce, Jay G. Silverman
Chapter 3: Economic Impact of Intimate Partner Violence
Jananie William
Chapter 4: Historical and Policy Perspectives on Intimate Partner Violence
Lisa James, Connie Mitchell, Claire Kao
Chapter 5: Explanatory Frameworks for Intimate Partner Violence
Lisa D. Brush
Chapter 6: Intimate Partner Violence in a Social Justice Framework
Kamila A. Alexander, Ashleigh LoVette, Tyde-Courtney Edwards, Tiara C. Willie, Carolyn M. West
Chapter 7: Advances in Trauma Science and Impact on Health and Recovery
Patricia Rush, Audrey Stillerman
Chapter 8: Strength and Resiliency of Women and their Children Who Are Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence Kerry Peterson, Emma Jagasia, Kathryn Spearman, Phyllis Sharps, Jacquelyn Campbell
Chapter 9: People Who Use Intimate Partner Violence
Vijay Singh, Brian Penti, Peter Cronholm
Section II: Health Impact, Presentations and Associated Health Conditions
Chapter 10: Key Considerations Regarding Health Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence
Brigid McCaw, Connie Mitchell, Elizabeth Miller, Kamila A. Alexander
Chapter 11: Intimate Partner Violence in Ambulatory Care Settings
Ayse Guler, Ann L. Coker
Chapter 12: Presentation and Recognition of Intimate Partner Violence in the Acute Care Setting
Amanda L. Teichman, Khushi Patel, Shane Mathew, Zachary P. Englert, Carolyn J. Sachs
Chapter 13: Intimate Partner Homicide, Lethality Assessment and Safety Planning
Jacquelyn Campbell, Kathryn Spearman, Nancy Glass
Chapter 14: Forensic Health Care Response to Intimate Partner Violence
Sheridan Miyamoto, Jennifer Delwiche, Manvita Mareboina, Annie Lewis-O'Connor
Chapter 15: Partner Inflicted Brain Injury
Julianna M. Nemeth, Rachel Ramirez, Luke Montgomery, Sophia Sobota
Chapter 16: Intimate Partner Violence and Reproductive/Urogynecologic Health
Karen Trister Grace, Jessica L. Dozier, Michele R. Decker
Chapter 17: HIV and Intimate Partner Violence
Jamila K. Stockman, Mona Mittal
Chapter 18: Mental Health and Intimate Partner Violence
Mary Ann Dutton
Chapter 19: Chronic Physical Symptoms, Chronic Pain, and Substance Use in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence
Diana W. Samberg, Jane M. Liebschutz
Chapter 20: Intimate Partner Violence and Cardiovascular Health and Sleep Among Women
Karen Jakubowski, Alana J. Castle, Rebecca C. Thurston
Section III: Special Populations and IPV
Chapter 21: The Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence with Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
Phyllis Sharps, Jacquelyn Campbell, Kelley N. Robinson
Chapter 22: Children in Households with Intimate Partner Violence
Megan R. Holmes, Kristen A. Berg, Ann E. Bender
Chapter 23: Relationship Abuse in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Maya Ragavan, Kimberly A. Randell, Elizabeth Miller
Chapter 24: Intimate Partner Violence in Older Adults
Mengting Li, XinQi Dong
Chapter 25: Intimate Partner Violence in Immigrant Populations
Rosa M. Gonzalez-Guarda, Jiepin Cao, Jessica L. Schnacky
Chapter 26: Intimate Partner Violence Among Persons Living with Disabilities
Kathryn Laughon, Jeanne Alhusen, Rosemary Hughes
Chapter 27: Intimate Partner Violence among Sexual and Gender Minority People
Jillian R. Scheer, Sarah W. Whitton, Mariah Xu, Gabe R. Murchison, Kiyan Irani, Tonda L. Hughes
Chapter 28: Intimate Partner Violence in the Military
Najah Barton
Section IV: Approaches to Prevention and Intervention
Chapter 29: Trauma-informed Care for Intimate Partner Violence
Annie Lewis-O'Connor, Eve Rittenberg, Megan Gerber, Amrapali Maitra
Chapter 30: Healing-centered Provider Communication to Address Intimate Partner Violence: Transforming Clinical Practices
Judy Chang, Elizabeth Miller
Chapter 31: Developing a Health System Response to Intimate Partner Violence
Brigid McCaw
Chapter 32: Frameworks for Prevention
Connie Mitchell, Ali Duffens
Chapter 33: Primary Prevention: Strategies to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence from Ever Occurring
Emily E. Camp, Katie M. Edwards, Alexander Farquhar-Leicester
Chapter 34: Secondary Prevention: Harm Reduction and Supporting Intimate Partner Violence Survivors in the Clinical Setting
Jocelyn Anderson, Elizabeth A. Walker, Nancy Glass
Chapter 35: Tertiary Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence: Stabilization, Acute Safety Needs, and Continuity of Care
Amanda L. Teichman, Douglas Cassidy, Zachary P. Englert, Carolyn J. Sachs
Chapter 36: Psychosocial Treatments to Improve the Mental Health of Intimate Partner Violence Survivors Katherine Iverson, Emily Taverna
Chapter 37: Essential Partners and Community Response for Intimate Partner Violence
Lisa James
Chapter 38: Nurturing Resilience: Supporting Care Providers Working with Trauma Survivors
Shanti J. Kulkarni, Maya Ragavan
Chapter 39: Intimate Partner Violence during Public Health Emergencies: All Hazards Planning and Management Considerations for Survivors and Their Children
Mona Mittal, Mitchell Stripling, Merritt Schreiber, Elizabeth Miller, Jamila Stockman
Chapter 40: Civil and Criminal Justice Remedies for Intimate Partner Violence
Demetrice M. Lopez, Anika Ramos
Foreword by Ruth M. Glenn
Preface
Section I: Understanding IPV
Chapter 1: Defining Intimate Partner Violence
Kathleen Basile, Sharon Smith, Norah Friar
Chapter 2: Epidemiology of Intimate Partner Violence
Sabrina C. Boyce, Jay G. Silverman
Chapter 3: Economic Impact of Intimate Partner Violence
Jananie William
Chapter 4: Historical and Policy Perspectives on Intimate Partner Violence
Lisa James, Connie Mitchell, Claire Kao
Chapter 5: Explanatory Frameworks for Intimate Partner Violence
Lisa D. Brush
Chapter 6: Intimate Partner Violence in a Social Justice Framework
Kamila A. Alexander, Ashleigh LoVette, Tyde-Courtney Edwards, Tiara C. Willie, Carolyn M. West
Chapter 7: Advances in Trauma Science and Impact on Health and Recovery
Patricia Rush, Audrey Stillerman
Chapter 8: Strength and Resiliency of Women and their Children Who Are Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence Kerry Peterson, Emma Jagasia, Kathryn Spearman, Phyllis Sharps, Jacquelyn Campbell
Chapter 9: People Who Use Intimate Partner Violence
Vijay Singh, Brian Penti, Peter Cronholm
Section II: Health Impact, Presentations and Associated Health Conditions
Chapter 10: Key Considerations Regarding Health Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence
Brigid McCaw, Connie Mitchell, Elizabeth Miller, Kamila A. Alexander
Chapter 11: Intimate Partner Violence in Ambulatory Care Settings
Ayse Guler, Ann L. Coker
Chapter 12: Presentation and Recognition of Intimate Partner Violence in the Acute Care Setting
Amanda L. Teichman, Khushi Patel, Shane Mathew, Zachary P. Englert, Carolyn J. Sachs
Chapter 13: Intimate Partner Homicide, Lethality Assessment and Safety Planning
Jacquelyn Campbell, Kathryn Spearman, Nancy Glass
Chapter 14: Forensic Health Care Response to Intimate Partner Violence
Sheridan Miyamoto, Jennifer Delwiche, Manvita Mareboina, Annie Lewis-O'Connor
Chapter 15: Partner Inflicted Brain Injury
Julianna M. Nemeth, Rachel Ramirez, Luke Montgomery, Sophia Sobota
Chapter 16: Intimate Partner Violence and Reproductive/Urogynecologic Health
Karen Trister Grace, Jessica L. Dozier, Michele R. Decker
Chapter 17: HIV and Intimate Partner Violence
Jamila K. Stockman, Mona Mittal
Chapter 18: Mental Health and Intimate Partner Violence
Mary Ann Dutton
Chapter 19: Chronic Physical Symptoms, Chronic Pain, and Substance Use in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence
Diana W. Samberg, Jane M. Liebschutz
Chapter 20: Intimate Partner Violence and Cardiovascular Health and Sleep Among Women
Karen Jakubowski, Alana J. Castle, Rebecca C. Thurston
Section III: Special Populations and IPV
Chapter 21: The Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence with Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
Phyllis Sharps, Jacquelyn Campbell, Kelley N. Robinson
Chapter 22: Children in Households with Intimate Partner Violence
Megan R. Holmes, Kristen A. Berg, Ann E. Bender
Chapter 23: Relationship Abuse in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Maya Ragavan, Kimberly A. Randell, Elizabeth Miller
Chapter 24: Intimate Partner Violence in Older Adults
Mengting Li, XinQi Dong
Chapter 25: Intimate Partner Violence in Immigrant Populations
Rosa M. Gonzalez-Guarda, Jiepin Cao, Jessica L. Schnacky
Chapter 26: Intimate Partner Violence Among Persons Living with Disabilities
Kathryn Laughon, Jeanne Alhusen, Rosemary Hughes
Chapter 27: Intimate Partner Violence among Sexual and Gender Minority People
Jillian R. Scheer, Sarah W. Whitton, Mariah Xu, Gabe R. Murchison, Kiyan Irani, Tonda L. Hughes
Chapter 28: Intimate Partner Violence in the Military
Najah Barton
Section IV: Approaches to Prevention and Intervention
Chapter 29: Trauma-informed Care for Intimate Partner Violence
Annie Lewis-O'Connor, Eve Rittenberg, Megan Gerber, Amrapali Maitra
Chapter 30: Healing-centered Provider Communication to Address Intimate Partner Violence: Transforming Clinical Practices
Judy Chang, Elizabeth Miller
Chapter 31: Developing a Health System Response to Intimate Partner Violence
Brigid McCaw
Chapter 32: Frameworks for Prevention
Connie Mitchell, Ali Duffens
Chapter 33: Primary Prevention: Strategies to Prevent Intimate Partner Violence from Ever Occurring
Emily E. Camp, Katie M. Edwards, Alexander Farquhar-Leicester
Chapter 34: Secondary Prevention: Harm Reduction and Supporting Intimate Partner Violence Survivors in the Clinical Setting
Jocelyn Anderson, Elizabeth A. Walker, Nancy Glass
Chapter 35: Tertiary Prevention of Intimate Partner Violence: Stabilization, Acute Safety Needs, and Continuity of Care
Amanda L. Teichman, Douglas Cassidy, Zachary P. Englert, Carolyn J. Sachs
Chapter 36: Psychosocial Treatments to Improve the Mental Health of Intimate Partner Violence Survivors Katherine Iverson, Emily Taverna
Chapter 37: Essential Partners and Community Response for Intimate Partner Violence
Lisa James
Chapter 38: Nurturing Resilience: Supporting Care Providers Working with Trauma Survivors
Shanti J. Kulkarni, Maya Ragavan
Chapter 39: Intimate Partner Violence during Public Health Emergencies: All Hazards Planning and Management Considerations for Survivors and Their Children
Mona Mittal, Mitchell Stripling, Merritt Schreiber, Elizabeth Miller, Jamila Stockman
Chapter 40: Civil and Criminal Justice Remedies for Intimate Partner Violence
Demetrice M. Lopez, Anika Ramos