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A brief counseling intervention by health professionals utilising the 'readiness to change' concept for women experiencing intimate partner abuse: The weave project
Kelsey L Hegarty
Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, VIC
Lorna J O'Doherty
Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, VIC
Jane Gunn
Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, VIC
David Pierce
Primary Care Research Unit, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, VIC
Angela J Taft
Senior Research and VicHealth Fellow, Mother and Child Health Research, La Trobe University, Melbourne VIC
Abstract
This paper describes a brief counselling intervention based on the 'readiness to change' concept for women experiencing intimate partner violence, and an educational program for training primary care health professionals in the delivery of such an intervention.
We present a
synthesis of the literature on the Transtheoretical Model of Behaviour and the
Psychosocial Readiness to Change Model as applied to intimate partner violence.
We describe the intervention used in the weave trial, which draws on the educational and partner violence literature, as well as integrating key theoretical insights from the field of behaviour change. Practical steps for training health professionals are outlined from the authors' experience and research.
Keywords
intimate partner violence, counselling, health professionals, education
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