Additional Reading and Resources
VEGA Briefing Notes
- IPV Identification: We Must Do Better Than Screening (2017)
- VEGA Trauma- and Violence Informed Care (TVIC) Briefing Note (2016)
- VEGA Mandatory Reporting (MR) Briefing Note (2016)
VEGA Publications
Lewis, N.V., Feder, G.S., Howarth, E., Szilassy, E., McTavish, J.R., MacMillan, H.L., Wathen, C.N. (2018). Identification and initial response to children’s exposure to intimate partner violence: a qualitative synthesis of the perspectives of children, mothers and professionals. BMJ Open:8:e019761. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019761. Find the pdf here. (open access)
Afifi, T.O., McTavish, J., Turner, S., MacMillan, H.L., & Wathen, C.N. (2018). The relationship between child protection contact and mental health outcomes among Canadian adults with a child abuse history, Child Abuse & Neglect, 79, 22-30. Find the pdf here. (open access)
Kimber, M., Adham, S., Gill, S., McTavish, J., & MacMillan, H.L. (2018). The association between child exposure to intimate partner violence (IPV) and perpetration of IPV in adulthood—A systematic review. Child Abuse & Neglect, 76, 273-286. Find the abstract here.
McTavish, J.R., Kimber, M., Devries, K., Colombini, M., MacGregor, J., Knight, L., Wathen, N., MacMillan, H. (2017). Mandated reporters’ experiences with reporting child maltreatment: a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies. BMJ Open; 7:e013942. doi:10.1136/ bmjopen-2016-013942. Find the pdf here. (open access)
Kimber M, MacMillan HL. Child psychological abuse. Pediatrics in Review 2017; 38(10):496-8.
Multimedia Resources
TVIC Workshop (~1 hour divided into three sub-videos, including tools and activities; N. Wathen & M. Ford Gilboe)
PreVAiL Research Briefs
The following Research Briefs (all pdfs from the PreVAiL website) provide the “state of the evidence”:
- Identifying and Responding to Children’s Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence (Fall 2016)
- Identifying and Responding to Intimate Partner Violence (Fall 2016)
- Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment (March 2014)
- Resilience, Mental Health and Family Violence (March 2014)
- The Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence on Workers and Workplaces (March 2014)