Intimate Partner Violence Intervention Paper

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Intimate Partner Violence Intervention Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a global problem that is undetected due to not many of those that have been a victim report the incident. IVP can be consider as a pattern of assaultive and coercive behaviors, which included physical, sexual, and psychological attacks, as well as economic coercion, used by adults or adolescents against their intimate partner (Roark, 2010). For young adolescence that is a victim of dating violence, it is called adolescence dating violence (ADV). ADV is defined as physical, sexual, or psychological/emotional violence within a dating relationship. For ADV, through the national assessment of high school students found that as many of 30% of teens have experienced dating …show more content…

For teen dating violence, it can be a big problem because they are being harm as such a young age and may be aware of it. Adolescents are vulnerable to relational violence as they explore and experience of being in a relationship. With those, some adolescents may not know the interactions within dating relationship that are unacceptable to their peers or the community (Khubchandani, et.al, 2013). From the Youth Risk Behaviors Survey, it reported that for students who have dated someone in the last 12 months, about 1 in 10 of them are a victim of a physical violence from their partner. In addition to that, 10% of the students that dated someone in the last 12 months reported that they been kissed, touched or physically forced to have sexual intercourse against their will by their violence partner (NIJ, 2014). For young female that are a victims of IPV, 94% of those age 16-19 and 70% of those age 20-24 (Love is Respect, n.d). For teen that is in a domestic relationship, it can lead to higher risk of substance abuse, eating disorder, teen pregnancy, and STI. With a high rate of teen dating violence, it is important for the community, family, and friend to be aware of that and find an intervention that can help …show more content…

The purpose of this study is to create a innovative program helps the community of college campus to be aware of dating violence on campus and how to protect students from it through the “TeLL Dating Violence Project” that was created by 3 advanced practice nurses. Eighteen students including facilities attended the educational session how to identify dating violence and what to do if she/him or a friend is a victim of IPV. The result from this innovation had showed an improvement on the safety around campus. The school public safety website contain excellent information on crime prevention, and periodically safety reminders are sent to students by e-mail (Ames, et.al, 2014). By educating the college community regarding IVP, it is a great ways for them to be aware of IPV and where they can get help on

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