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.