April Digest: Recognizing Unhealthy Relationships Edition

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Update from the Office on Women's Health

Health Professional Digest Volume 2, Issue 4

The HHS Office on Women’s Health (OWH) knows how important it is for you to have the latest information on prevention and treatment to help you best serve your patients. Each month, we will share a curated list of tools and resources that you can immediately put into practice.


Recognizing Unhealthy Relationships — News You Can Use

Being in an unhealthy relationship can have lasting, harmful effects on the health and well-being of those involved. Health care professionals can play a vital role in helping their patients understand the warning signs and behaviors associated with unhealthy relationships, including abuse and trauma. This month, review the following tools and resources to help your patients recognize key symptoms and learn how they can get help.

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Reproductive and Sexual Coercion Guidelines

Updated in 2018, this resource from Futures Without Violence focuses on the crucial role of the health care provider in identifying and addressing IPV and reproductive coercion. Funded by grants from OWH and the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), the updated publication provides guidelines for identifying and responding to victimization and includes a clinical quality assessment and quality improvement tool.

Hanging Out or Hooking Up: Clinical Guidelines on Responding to Adolescent Relationship Abuse

This guide from Futures Without Violence, funded by grants from OWH and ACYF, focuses on the transformative role of the adolescent health care provider in preventing, identifying, and addressing adolescent relationship abuse. These guidelines can be used in a range of settings serving adolescents, including adolescent health programs, pediatric settings, family planning clinics, and school-based health centers.

Dating Matters®: Strategies to Promote Healthy Teen Relationships

This comprehensive prevention model, developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), focuses on teaching 11- to 14-year-olds healthy relationship skills before they start dating and reducing behaviors that increase the risk of dating violence, like substance abuse and sexual risk-taking.


Share With Your Patients:

Encourage your patients to review the following resources on relationships:

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