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Substance abuse interface with intimate partner violence: what treatment programs need to know
Margaret H Brackley1, Gail B Williams, Christina C Wei
1Department of Family and Community Health Systems, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA. brackley@uthscsa.edu
Abstract:
This article provides suggestions for skill development for substance abuse (SA) treatment agencies and providers for implementing Treatment Improvement Protocol number 25: Substance Abuse Treatment and Domestic Violence. Methods for detecting, screening, intervening, and referring victims and perpetrators of intimate partner violence enrolled in SA treatment are presented. Evidence-based brief intervention is presented. A 2-minute screen for domestic violence as well as danger assessment for lethality of abuse and the Conflict Tactics Scales 2 are reviewed. A survey of interventions aimed at establishing trust, brief intervention from best practice, guidelines for safety planning, compliance strategies for SA treatment, and community resource development are presented.
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