Sunday, September 30, 2012

What Can Clinicians Do?


Welcome back! Here is a piece written by medical practitioners about the ways in which clinicians can take steps to assess intimate partner violence in regard to their GLBT patients. The ways in which they outline clinicians can better address IPV in their GLBT patients is:
1-    have an open discussion about gender identity and sexual orientation
2-    when addressing IPV in GLBT patients, clinicians can serve as an educational resource
3-    providers need to take care to prepare themselves to be informed and address health risks associated with IPV within the GLBT community
4-    clinicians should arm themselves with knowledge of the resources available for GLBT individuals so that they can provide meaningful referrals
5-    make sure that clinical resources and guidelines about IPV include information about IPV within the GLBT community

Citation: Ard MD, Kevin L. and Harvey J. Makadon, MD. (2011). Addressing Intimate Partner Violence in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Patients. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 26(8), 930-933.

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