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American Public Health Association
133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition
December 10-14, 2005
Philadelphia, PA
APHA 2005
 
Session: Violence Across the Life Span & Populations: Intimate Partner Violence; HIV/AIDS, Down-Low, etc.; Practice& Interventions
5140.0: Wednesday, December 14, 2005: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM
Oral
Violence Across the Life Span & Populations: Intimate Partner Violence; HIV/AIDS, Down-Low, etc.; Practice& Interventions
The field of public health continues to explore variables that may have an impact on domestic violence. This session explores the relationship between intimate partner violence (IPV) in women's lives and the serious consequences for women's health and their children's wellbeing and addresses spiritual practices and domestic violence behaviors.
Learning Objectives: 1. Describe the occurrence and patterns of intimate partner violence throughout pregnancy transitions. 2. Recognize the importance of assessing different types of intimate partner violence, psychological, physical and sexual, among women throughout pregnancy transitions. 3. Identify times throughout pregnancy transitions when intimate partner violence interventions are critical.1. Exploration of the specific dynamics of domestic violence in faith communities 2. Discussion of the impact of spirituality/religiosity on domestic violence 3. Understanding of the victims perspective on services as impacted by their specific religious needs 4. Identification of further research questions that need to be considered in future studies
12:30 PMDifferences in the perception of dating violence between younger & older adolescents  [ Recorded presentation ]
Moisés Próspero, MSW MBA
12:50 PMDomestic Violence and Faith Communities  [ Recorded presentation ]
Marciana Popescu, PhD, MSW, Sharon A. Gillespie, MA, MPH, Duane McBride, PhD, Rene' Drumm, PhD
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Social Work
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing, Social Work

The 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition (December 10-14, 2005) of APHA