Safety Planning:  A Vital Preliminary Step for Professionals Working With Intimate Partner Violence Victims

Kahraman, Melis Sedef; Bell, Kathy

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“…Safety planning is a broad term referring to strategies that increase women’s safety by increasing situational awareness of IPV-related risks and empowering women with necessary skills to enhance safety (Wood et al, 2019). The process involves gathering relevant information, evaluating the current situation of a survivor, identifying the types of advocacy and resources needed, and developing a plan to prevent and address IPV (Kahraman, & Bell, 2017). Survivor-centered safety planning would, for instance, recognize that survivors of IPV may not want to leave or may be unable to leave an abusive relationship and provide appropriate options to enhance safety even while staying in the relationship.…”

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Safety Planning With Marginalized Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Challenges of Conducting Safety Planning Intervention Research With Marginalized Women

Sabri

Tharmarajah

Njie-Carr

et al. 2021

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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Intimate partner violence (IPV) disproportionately affects marginalized women in the United States. This calls for effective safety planning strategies to reduce the risk for future revictimization and address safety needs of survivors from marginalized groups. This review identified types of interventions that incorporated safety planning and were successful in reducing the risk for future revictimization among IPV survivors from diverse groups, examined elements of safety planning in effective interventions, and described challenges or limitations in safety planning intervention research with marginalized women. A systematic search of five databases was performed. The search resulted in inclusion of 17 studies for synthesis. The included studies were quantitative, U.S.-based, evaluated interventions with a safety planning component, and had an outcome of change in IPV. Effective interventions that incorporated safety planning were empowerment and advocacy focused. Elements included were comprehensive assessments of survivors’ unique needs and situations, educating them about IPV, helping them identify threats to safety, developing a concrete safety plan, facilitating linkage with resources, providing advocacy services as needed, and conducting periodic safety check-ins. For survivors with mental and behavioral health issues, effective interventions included psychotherapeutic approaches along with safety planning to address survivors’ co-occurring health care needs. Although most studies reported positive findings, there were limitations related to designs, methods, adequate inclusion, and representation of marginalized women and cultural considerations. This calls for additional research using rigorous and culturally informed approaches to establish an evidence base for effective interventions that specifically address the safety planning needs of marginalized survivors of IPV.

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Safety Planning With Marginalized Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Challenges of Conducting Safety Planning Intervention Research With Marginalized Women

Sabri

Tharmarajah

Njie-Carr

et al. 2021

Trauma, Violence, & Abuse

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“…Safety planning interventions use strategies that increase situational awareness of IPV-related risks among women and empower women with skills necessary to enhance safety [5]. The safety planning process begins with understanding a woman's perspective of her situation, including her assessment of risks, then gathering relevant information, assessing past and current safety strategies, evaluating the current situation, and identifying the types of support and resources needed, before developing a plan to prevent and address IPV [6,7]. Since there are unique risk and protective factors for IPV experienced by immigrant women (e.g., documentation status), their safety planning needs may differ from nonimmigrant women [3].…”

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A technology-based intervention to improve safety, mental health and empowerment outcomes for immigrant women with intimate partner violence experiences: it’s weWomen plus sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) protocol

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Background Intimate partner violence (IPV) disproportionately affects immigrant women, an understudied and underserved population in need for evidence-based rigorously evaluated culturally competent interventions that can effectively address their health and safety needs. Methods This study uses a sequential, multiple assignment, randomized trial (SMART) design to rigorously evaluate an adaptive, trauma-informed, culturally tailored technology-delivered intervention tailored to the needs of immigrant women who have experienced IPV. In the first stage randomization, participants are randomly assigned to an online safety decision and planning or a usual care control arm and safety, mental health and empowerment outcomes are assessed at 3-, 6- and 12-months post-baseline. For the second stage randomization, women who do not report significant improvements in safety (i.e., reduction in IPV) and empowerment from baseline to 3 months follow up (i.e., non-responders) are re- randomized to safety and empowerment strategies delivered via text only or a combination of text and phone calls with trained advocates. Data on outcomes (safety, mental health, and empowerment) for early non-responders is assessed at 6 and 12 months post re-randomization. Discussion The study’s SMART design provides an opportunity to implement and evaluate an individualized intervention protocol for immigrant women based on their response to type or intensity of intervention. The findings will be useful for identifying what works for whom and characteristics of participants needing a particular type or intensity level of intervention for improved outcomes. If found to be effective, the study will result in an evidence-based trauma-informed culturally tailored technology-based safety decision and planning intervention for immigrant survivors of IPV that can be implemented by practitioners serving immigrant women in diverse settings. Trial registration This trial was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov as NCT04098276 on September 13, 2019.

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Experiences of intimate partner violence and valued living among women veterans: The role of self‐efficacy

Taverna,

Kline,

Kumar

et al. 2024

Journal of Traumatic Stress

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Predominantly cross‐sectional research suggests that self‐efficacy may play an important role in women's psychological health after experiencing intimate partner violence (IPV). However, few studies have examined these associations over time or with respect to broader aspects of psychological well‐being. Valued living, which reflects behavioral engagement within personally important life domains, represents a key aspect of well‐being that may be negatively impacted by experiences of IPV. Participants were 190 women veterans who completed three web‐based surveys. We examined whether IPV experiences at Time 1 were associated with valued living at Time 3 (i.e., 4 years after Time 1) through self‐efficacy at Time 2 (i.e., 3 years after Time 1). We separately examined overall, psychological, physical, and sexual IPV and investigated lifetime and recent (i.e., past 6 months) IPV experiences for each subtype. Separate path analysis models indicated that lifetime overall, β = ‐.10, 95% CI [‐.19, ‐.02]; psychological, β = ‐.08, 95% CI [‐.17, ‐.001]; physical, β = ‐.10, 95% CI [‐.18, ‐.01]; and sexual, β = ‐.11, 95% CI [‐.22, ‐.01], IPV experiences were indirectly associated with less valued living through less self‐efficacy, whereas the indirect effect only emerged for recent physical IPV, β = ‐.26, 95% CI [‐.50, ‐.02], but not for recent overall, psychological, or sexual IPV. These findings suggest that experiencing IPV is associated with less self‐efficacy and valued living, which highlights the importance of providing early psychosocial interventions to enhance well‐being among individuals managing the effects of experiencing IPV.

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Safety Planning: A Vital Preliminary Step for Professionals Working With Intimate Partner Violence Victims

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References 37 publications

Safety Planning With Marginalized Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Challenges of Conducting Safety Planning Intervention Research With Marginalized Women

Safety Planning With Marginalized Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: Challenges of Conducting Safety Planning Intervention Research With Marginalized Women

A technology-based intervention to improve safety, mental health and empowerment outcomes for immigrant women with intimate partner violence experiences: it’s weWomen plus sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) protocol

Experiences of intimate partner violence and valued living among women veterans: The role of self‐efficacy

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