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Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Risk Factors in Women and Intervention Strategies for Therapists
Therapists are often the first point of contact for female survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), yet this topic is frequently under-addressed in clinical education. Many clinicians never receive formal training on IPV, even though clients are experiencing it every day, often without naming it directly.  It may be difficult to support female clients suffering from IPV in silence, without any training in recognizing their quiet distress. This course provides practical, nonjudgmental guidance to support your work with female clients who may not disclose abuse openly and will raise your level of readiness to address IPV in your practice.
 
Participants will explore how perpetrators often follow a discernible grooming process, and how certain risk factors can increase a client's vulnerability to sexual assault, particularly in cases where the perpetrator is someone known to them. The course also examines personality traits common among perpetrators and the importance of recognizing early warning signs. What makes this course different is by addressing the probability of future IPV victimization of your female clients, before it occurs. Moreover, participants will learn how to raise the topic of safe and healthy relationships with female clients, even when this is not female clients' presenting problem.
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Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Risk Factors in Women and Intervention Strategies for Therapists

Sunday, October 18, 2026, 6:00 PM EDT - 9:00 PM EDT

Presenter: Ilana Orange, DSW LCSW

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Course Length: 3 Hours

Learning Objectives:

  1. 1. Therapists will learn about statistics concerning intimate partner violence; the experiences of women enduring intimate partner violence trying to obtain support from medical and mental health professionals; the experiences of professionals facing clients who are suffering from intimate partner violence.
  2. 2. Therapists will critically reflect on their ability to provide IPV informed care to clients vulnerable to future intimate partner relationships.
  3. 3. Therapists will develop new insights about the signs of narcissistic personality and how it manifests within an intimate partner relationship; label various sexual grooming activities a sexual perpetrator engages in before assault; and identify possible victims among their caseload.
  4. 4. Therapists will use appropriate risk assessments and safety planning tools to assist in reducing the risk of sexual assault for clients in present and future unsafe relationships.

This workshop Offers 3 Live Interactive Continuing Education Credits

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Therapists are often the first point of contact for female survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV), yet this topic is frequently under-addressed in clinical education. Many clinicians never receive formal training on IPV, even though clients are experiencing it every day, often without naming it directly.  It may be difficult to support female clients suffering from IPV in silence, without any training in recognizing their quiet distress. This course provides practical, nonjudgmental guidance to support your work with female clients who may not disclose abuse openly and will raise your level of readiness to address IPV in your practice.
 
Participants will explore how perpetrators often follow a discernible grooming process, and how certain risk factors can increase a client's vulnerability to sexual assault, particularly in cases where the perpetrator is someone known to them. The course also examines personality traits common among perpetrators and the importance of recognizing early warning signs. What makes this course different is by addressing the probability of future IPV victimization of your female clients, before it occurs. Moreover, participants will learn how to raise the topic of safe and healthy relationships with female clients, even when this is not female clients' presenting problem.

Learning Objectives:

  1. 1. Therapists will learn about statistics concerning intimate partner violence; the experiences of women enduring intimate partner violence trying to obtain support from medical and mental health professionals; the experiences of professionals facing clients who are suffering from intimate partner violence.
  2. 2. Therapists will critically reflect on their ability to provide IPV informed care to clients vulnerable to future intimate partner relationships.
  3. 3. Therapists will develop new insights about the signs of narcissistic personality and how it manifests within an intimate partner relationship; label various sexual grooming activities a sexual perpetrator engages in before assault; and identify possible victims among their caseload.
  4. 4. Therapists will use appropriate risk assessments and safety planning tools to assist in reducing the risk of sexual assault for clients in present and future unsafe relationships.

Agenda:

Agenda (including a 15-minute break)


DEFINING THE PROBLEM (30 minutes)

-Introduction to the topic

-Statistics about IPV (DiNapoli, 2023; Noel, 2023; Wertheimer-Meier & Hill, 2022)

-Literature recap about the experiences of women trying to obtain professional support (Feder, 2006; Tarzia, et al., 2020; Wright, et al., 2022)

-Literature recap about how professionals respond when faced with women suffering from IPV (Hegarty, et al., 2020; Hudspeth, et al., 2022; Lanthier, et al., 2018; Lutz, et al., 2023; Peeren, et al., 2024; Tarzia, et al., 2021; Teshome, et al., 2023; Young, et al., 2024).

RESEARCH on PERPETRATORS (45 minutes)

-Dark Tetrad Characteristics (Gomez-Leal, et al., 2024)

-Narcissists and great first impressions (Back, et al., 2010).  Vulnerable narcissists and vulnerability grooming

-Rape myths acceptance (Boehner, et al., 2006; Johnson, 2009; Johnson & Beech, 2017; Mouislo & Calhoun, 2013; Suarez & Gadalla, 2010; Tokar, 2023; Trottier, et al., 2021; Yapp & Quayle, 2018)

-The boomerang effect of empathy prompting in perpetrators (Bosson et al., 2015; Long & Herr, 2022)

-Reactance Theory and how it relates to sexual assault (Baumeister et al., 2002; Bushman et al., 2003)

-Activities of grooming for a future intimate partner violent relationship (love bombing, boundary violations, and isolation) (Duron, 2020)

RESEARCH on VICTIMS  (30 minutes)

-ACES (Pereira et al., 2020)

-Personality Traits (McWilliams, 1984; Oakley et al., 2012; Pereira et al., 2020)

-Additional victim characteristics (Pereira et al., 2020)

-Theory of “The Human Magnet Syndrome”: vulnerable clients are attracted to narcissists and vice versa (Rosenberg, 2019)

CONVERSATION ABOUT THERAPISTS (30 minutes)

-Reflection about possible biases that relate to our ability to support vulnerable clients: difficulty with the topic, ego defenses, a functionality bias, a treatment plan bias

SAFETY PLANNING/RISK MANAGEMENT (30 minutes)

-What not to do: ask a client to trust her gut, send a couple to couples’ counseling, blame the victim

-Proactively: teach safe relationships, empower women to assess risk and set boundaries

-Reactively: make a safety pivot and create an immediate risk assessment and safety plan

-Incorporate motivational interviewing into safety and treatment planning when a client at risk for future victimization is unaware she is in danger

ACTIVITIES: (60 minutes)

-Video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxgGalngSjE)

-Breakout rooms exercises

-Questions

-Review

-Take the Safety First Pledge

-How to obtain ongoing support when treating vulnerable clients

-Provide ongoing critical feedback to presenter

This presentation is open to:
  • Physicians
  • Physician Assistance
  • Nurses
  • Social Workers
  • Professional Counselors
  • Therapists
  • Psychologists
  • Licensed Mental Health Practitioners
  • Medical Doctors and Other Health Professionals
  • Other professionals interacting with populations engaged in mental health based services
Course Level: introductory
Level of Clinician: intermediate
  • New practitioners who wish to gain enhanced insight surrounding the topic
  • Experienced practitioners who seek to increase and expand fundamental knowledge surrounding the subject matter
  • Advanced practitioners seeking to review concepts and reinforce practice skills and/or access additional consultation
  • Managers seeking to broaden micro and/or macro perspectives

Participants will receive their certificate electronically upon completion of the webinar and course evaluation form.

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