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Caring for women subjected to violence : a WHO curriculum for training health-care providers World Health Organization

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: World Health Organization, 2019Description: electronic document (100 pages) ; PDF fileISBN:
  • 9789241517102
Subject(s): Online resources: Summary: This curriculum is designed to provide health-care providers, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, with a foundation for responding to domestic/ intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women. The curriculum seeks to build skills and to address providers’ attitudes towards survivors of violence. Participants will learn how to provide women-centred clinical care, including identifying women experiencing violence, providing first-line support though the LIVES approach (Listen, Inquire, Validate, Enhance safety and Support), providing essential clinical care for survivors, and identifying local support resources. They will learn to reflect on their own attitudes and understand survivors’ experience. The curriculum emphasizes compassionate, empathic provider–patient communication. (From the website). Record #6831
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This curriculum is designed to provide health-care providers, particularly in low- and middle-income countries, with a foundation for responding to domestic/ intimate partner violence and sexual violence against women. The curriculum seeks to build skills and to address providers’ attitudes towards survivors of violence. Participants will learn how to provide women-centred clinical care, including identifying women experiencing violence, providing first-line support though the LIVES approach (Listen, Inquire, Validate, Enhance safety and Support), providing essential clinical care for survivors, and identifying local support resources. They will learn to reflect on their own attitudes and understand survivors’ experience. The curriculum emphasizes compassionate, empathic provider–patient communication. (From the website). Record #6831

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