The Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and Mental Health Services
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Educational Goal
Participants are expected to gain competence in recognizing the signs of intimate partner violence in the clinical setting, and in approaching these issues with survivors of intimate partner violence.
Description
Intimate Partner Violence is a public health crisis impacting individuals, families, communities, and society as whole. With 1 in 4 women and 1 in 9 men experiencing severe intimate partner physical violence, intimate partner sexual violence, and/or intimate partner stalking during their lifetime; mental health providers will at some point encounter working with survivors of abuse in their clinical work.
Having trauma-informed clinical interventions and practicing culturally competent responses is key in providing survivors with support. In this 90-minute training participants will examine the true scope of intimate partner violence through interpreting relevant U.S. and global statistics and defining the various forms of abuse that survivors may experience. Effective trauma-informed interventions focused on working with survivors will be identified and culturally competent responses to survivors will be discussed.
Target Audience
- Counselor
- Marriage & Family Therapist
- Social Worker
- Substance Use Disorder Professionals
Presenters
Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, CDBT, CPD, is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in private practice in the State of Maine, where her areas of expertise include intimate partner violence, abuse, trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, grief, personality disorders, dissociative disorders, and relationship issues. Katelyn specializes in utilizing Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing in her clinical work with clients.
Her clinical experience includes working for over ten years in various roles as a case manager, child and family therapist, and trauma therapist for several agencies and Native American reservations. Her clinical work includes working with clients individually, in group settings, and responding to mental health crisis calls. Ms. Baxter-Musser served as the Trauma Healing Services Clinical Coordinator for La Frontera Arizona, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing behavioral health counseling, crisis intervention, and support to families and individuals facing domestic violence, abuse, hate crimes, and other issues. Currently owning and operating her private practice in Maine, she works with couples, families, and individuals ages four and up. She offers a variety of presentations both in-person and online and provides consultation for mental health professionals.
Ms. Baxter-Musser is trained in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and is an Eye Movement Desensitization. She is a Certified Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Personality Disorder Professional and an EMDRIA Approved Consultant. She is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress, the National Center for Crisis Management, and EMDRIA. She sits on the EMDRIA Standards and Training Committee and is the regional coordinator for the EMDRIA Southern Maine Regional Network.