Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: A Complete Clinical Guide

ISBN-13: 9783030383442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 270 str.

Veronica Ades

Spis treści

SECTION I: Defining Trauma.- What is Psychological Trauma?.- Psychoeducation: Discussing Trauma with Patients.- SECTION II: Context Specific Trauma.- Intimate Partner Violence and the Training of Healthcare Providers.- Reducing Barriers to Medical Care for Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation.- Providing Medical Care to Survivors of Sexual Assault and Harassment in the Military.- Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Communities.- SECTION III: Clinical.- The Trauma-Informed Examination.- An Integrated Mental Health Care Model for the Patient with Sexual Trauma.- Acute Medical and Forensic Care for Victims of Sexual Assault.- Trauma-Informed Family Planning.- Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting.- SECTION IV: Medicolegal Issues.- Medical Documentation in Intimate Partner Violence Cases.- Legal Systems and Needs: Considerations for Survivors of Gender-Based Violence.- Appendix: Resources by Chapter.

O autorze

Veronica Ades, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Director of Global Women’s Health at the New York University Langone Medical Center (NYULMC). She is also the Director of the EMPOWER Clinic for Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Sexual Violence at Gouverneur Health on the Lower East Side. She attended medical school at the State University of New York at Downstate in Brooklyn, NY, and obtained residency training in obstetrics and gynecology at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine in the Bronx, NY. She then obtained a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Quantitative Methods at the Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Ades then completed a three-year fellowship in Reproductive Infectious Disease at the University of California, San Francisco, during which she lived and worked in rural Uganda. During her fellowship, Dr. Ades carried out an NIH/NICHD-funded P01 randomized controlled trial of malaria prevention in HIV-infected women, and conducted research on prevention of protease inhibitors for placental malaria prevention in HIV-infected and –uninfected women. Dr. Ades also obtained a Certificate in Comparative Effectiveness from New York University School of Medicine.