Addressing 'the ultimate insult' : responding to women experiencing intimate partner sexual violence Jill Duncan and Deborah Western
By: Duncan, Jill
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Contributor(s): Western, Doborah.
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ArticleSeries: ADFVC stakeholder paper.Publisher: Sydney, N.S.W.: Australian Domestic and Family Violence Clearinghouse, 2011Description: 16 p. ; electronic document: PDF file (1.67 MB).Subject(s): SEXUAL VIOLENCE | INTERVENTION | SUPPORT SERVICES | INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE | AUSTRALIAOnline resources: Archived copy ADFVC stakeholder paper, 10, February 2011Summary: Note: This paper can be downloaded from the Aphrodite Wounded website. If this link fails, please contact NZFVC or ANROWS to obtain this paper."KEY POINTS
• Research and literature indicate that significant numbers of women experience intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV).
• IPSV commonly involves repeated and severe physical and sexual assault with extreme risks to women’s safety.
• Policy and practice responses to women experiencing IPSV do not always recognise the importance of identifying and naming this experience. Subsequent support from the welfare, health and justice sectors is sometimes inconsistent, inaccessible or inappropriate to women’s needs.
• We argue that the quality and suitability of service provision by domestic and family violence and sexual assault practitioners to women experiencing IPSV would be strengthened by: asking women about the possibility of IPSV; the development of clearer
referral protocols; and the promotion of cross-sectoral information sharing and training.
• These developments need to occur within a context of large-scale cultural and systemic change within the justice, health and community service sectors, in terms of attitudes towards and understandings about women’s experiences of IPSV." (from p.1)
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ADFVC stakeholder paper, 10, February 2011
Note: This paper can be downloaded from the Aphrodite Wounded website. If this link fails, please contact NZFVC or ANROWS to obtain this paper."KEY POINTS
• Research and literature indicate that significant numbers of women experience intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV).
• IPSV commonly involves repeated and severe physical and sexual assault with extreme risks to women’s safety.
• Policy and practice responses to women experiencing IPSV do not always recognise the importance of identifying and naming this experience. Subsequent support from the welfare, health and justice sectors is sometimes inconsistent, inaccessible or inappropriate to women’s needs.
• We argue that the quality and suitability of service provision by domestic and family violence and sexual assault practitioners to women experiencing IPSV would be strengthened by: asking women about the possibility of IPSV; the development of clearer
referral protocols; and the promotion of cross-sectoral information sharing and training.
• These developments need to occur within a context of large-scale cultural and systemic change within the justice, health and community service sectors, in terms of attitudes towards and understandings about women’s experiences of IPSV." (from p.1)
