Title: Counseling Interventions for Victims of Intimate Partner Violence: A Systematic Review

Authors: Laura C. Craven PhD; Alexander M. Fields PhD; Ryan G. Carlson PhD; Elizabeth M. Combs PhD; Emily S. Howe

Description: Despite the prevalence of intimate partner violence (IPV) and its significant social impact, counselors are often unprepared to address IPV appropriately (Craven et al., 2022). Only 50% of counselors receive IPV-related training in graduate school, and 78% of those counselors do not feel that the training they received was adequate (Craven et al.). Moreover, evidence-based counseling interventions for IPV remain limited. This continuing education (CE) provides value to the education and practice of counseling as the authors developed implications for counselor and counselor educators, including implementing strategies to improve retention, targeting interventions based on IPV typology, and expanding on IPV research to include more individuals who may experience IPV.

Title: Counseling Intimate Partner Abuse Survivors: Effective and Ineffective Interventions

Authors: Meredith L. Barone; Mary Ann Glynn; Donna Andersen; and Liane J. Leedom, MD

Description: The extensive and deleterious health, societal, and economic consequences of intimate partner violence have been recognized in decades of work. Counseling Intimate Partner Abuse Survivors: Effective and Ineffective Interventions (Leedom, Andersen, Glynn, & Barone, 2019) document the experiences of intimate partner abuse survivors, explicitly identify effective and ineffective counseling strategies and interventions for working with intimate partner abuse survivors, and articulate implications for counseling, including recommendations for counselors not experienced in working with this population. This Continuing Professional Development resource provides counselors with a rationale to understand the experiences of intimate partner abuse survivors, recognize the impact of clinician’s attribution errors regarding the cause of their clients’ victimization, and discuss effective and ineffective interventions for counseling intimate partner abuse survivors.