[DV_listserv] FW: NCDVTMH Center Quarterly: Winter/Spring 2013

Thu Mar 28 08:39:04 PDT 2013

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“Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)—Pseudoscientific Theory Used Against Survivors in Court—Is Rejected from the DSM-V”

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Center Quarterly WINTER/SPRING 2013

Written for domestic violence advocates, direct service providers, policymakers, and anyone else with an interest in working to improve agency and system responses to domestic violence, the Center Quarterly provides updates and analysis on the latest news and research related to trauma, domestic violence, mental health, and substance abuse, as well as updates on our work at the National Center. To learn more, visit the first edition of the Quarterly by clicking this link: Center Quarterly • Fall 2012.<http://nationalcenterdvtraumamh.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7d123b3bc6efba6e11d584a32&id=0c97da6ace&e=afd3005382>

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Results from Our Nationwide Survey of DV Coalitions

As we shared in the last issue, over this past year NCDVTMH has been working to expand access to our training and technical assistance in response to requests from DV coalitions for assistance in meeting the new requirements regarding trauma-informed DV advocacy that appeared in last year’s Funding Opportunity Announcement. As a first step in this multi-year effort, NCDVTMH recently collaborated with the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV) to conduct a nationwide needs assessment of domestic violence coalitions. We want to share our appreciation for all of the coalition staff members who took the time to complete this survey! Results are now available on our website: Domestic Violence Coalitions’ Needs Assessment Survey Report<http://nationalcenterdvtraumamh.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7d123b3bc6efba6e11d584a32&id=163fd04f63&e=afd3005382>. Some of the key findings include the following:
·         72% of coalitions reported providing TA to member programs on developing trauma-informed services, and 51% reported providing TA on developing trauma‐informed organizations.
·         Four of the five training and TA topics coalitions most frequently described as a "high priority" pertained to trauma-informed approaches and services.
·         95% of coalitions indicated that cuts in funding for substance abuse treatment was a "big problem" in their state; 93% indicted that cuts in funding for mental health services was a "big problem" in their state; and 87% indicated that a lack of culturally specific services was a "big problem" in their state, marking this as a major area of need for most coalitions.
·         64% of coalitions reported being a part of multidisciplinary or multi-organizational state-level task forces/organizations/working groups addressing issues related to mental health, substance abuse, and/or trauma.

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NCDVTMH Hosts Trauma Symposium at the NNEDV Roundtable Meeting in Seattle

As part of our efforts to meet the needs of the 56 coalitions for training and TA on supporting their member programs in doing trauma-informed work, NCDVTMH facilitated a two-day Trauma Symposium following the National Network to End Domestic Violence (NNEDV)’s annual roundtable meeting held in Seattle in November 2012.
In her opening remarks to the Symposium, Marylouise Kelley, PhD, Director of the Family Violence Prevention & Services Program (FVPSP), emphasized the importance of developing a trauma-informed approach to advocacy. However, she also recognized that coalitions would need support during this process, saying that she was looking forward to hearing from the coalitions on what they need to move forward.
“Without a trauma lens, services can be retraumatizing, but without a domestic violence lens services may be endangering, without a culture lens, services may not be relevant or helpful, and without a social justice lens programs may be not be inclusive or accessible,” said Dr. Carole Warshaw.

Presenters from NCDVTMH gave an overview of what it looks like to create domestic violence programs that are fully accessible, culturally relevant, and trauma informed. They also discussed how to apply that approach in addressing more complex needs of survivors and their children, including mental health and substance abuse-related needs. Presenters and coalition staff also identified ways that a trauma-informed approach is consistent with empowerment-based domestic violence advocacy. For example, a key element of trauma-informed thinking is exemplified by the shift from asking “what’s wrong with you?” to asking about “what happened to you?” and what you have done to survive.

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NCDVTMH Review of Trauma-Specific Treatment in the Context of Domestic Violence
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Experiencing domestic violence can have significant mental health consequences. For many survivors, the traumatic effects of abuse can be alleviated with increased safety and support. For others, trauma-specific mental health interventions have proven helpful, particularly when provided in conjunction with domestic violence advocacy.

Yet, while awareness of the impact of trauma has grown considerably, access to mental health or substance abuse services of any kind is often limited, much less services that are gender responsive, culturally relevant, trauma informed, and trauma specific. Additional barriers to services exist for survivors who do not speak English or are undocumented, or for whom accessing behavioral health services carries a high level of stigma.

Despite these limitations, some DV advocacy programs provide trauma treatment to survivors within their agencies, and others are in a position to assist survivors in accessing DV-informed, trauma-specific services in their communities. Advocates may also be engaged in collaborative relationships with mental health providers through which they have opportunities to infuse a DV perspective into existing mental health approaches. For these reasons, it is helpful for the DV field to be aware of the types of trauma treatments that are currently available, particularly models that are specifically tailored for survivors of domestic violence, and to be aware of both the strengths and limitations of existing evidence-based treatments for trauma in the context of DV.

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Advocates Ask
Patti Bland, M.A., CDP, Substance Abuse Training Director, NCDVTMH
[http://www.nationalcenterdvtraumamh.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Ask-Patti-pic.jpg]“Advocates Ask,” began as a simple attempt to respond to questions from advocates working at the AWAIC Shelter in Anchorage, Alaska, and Transition House Programs in British Columbia, who wanted to know how to best provide trauma-informed advocacy for women affected by concurrent domestic violence, sexual assault, and substance abuse issues. Their questions and others asked by advocates across the U.S. and Canada on a variety of topics will be addressed for and by advocates in this new column brought to you by NCDVTMH staff member Patti Bland M.A., CDP.

What It Was Like
Recently I joined the staff of the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health (NCDVTMH) to provide training and technical assistance on substance abuse and domestic violence through a trauma-informed lens. Prior to joining the staff at NCDVTMH, I had the good fortune to serve for over 20 years as both an advocate and substance abuse professional in Washington State and as coalition staff for the Alaska Network on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault. Back in the late 80s and early 90s, it was hard to find a lot of written information on the intersections among domestic violence/sexual assault, substance abuse, trauma, and other psychiatric disabilities rooted in the experiences of survivors themselves. I was so very lucky to connect with Carole Warshaw and other advocates, substance abuse professionals, educators, and coalition staff in Illinois who, early on, were also exploring how to best support survivors experiencing multiple forms of harm.

Talking together, we soon discovered advocates in our communities in Illinois, the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska were asking us similar questions about addiction and mental health to help them provide better trauma-informed advocacy for domestic violence/sexual assault program participants in rural and urban areas. Debi Edmund and I wrote our first manual, Getting Safe and Sober: Real Tools You Can Use, as a follow-up to the Illinois DHS manual, Safety and Sobriety, Best Practices in Domestic Violence and Substance Abuse, in response to many of these questions. Both Carole Warshaw and Terri Pease from NCDVTMH provided technical assistance and contributed material to support our efforts to get Safety and Sobriety and other useful Real Tools ready for advocates to use.

During these earlier efforts, we hoped to offer practical responses to questions advocates were asking us in our home states about how to support survivors dealing with addiction. Many of these questions (plus new ones) are still being asked today by advocates in rural and urban areas across the U.S. and Canada as well as by program participants themselves. [...]

Our first question: What kind of training is needed to ensure appropriate trauma-informed service delivery for individuals and families impacted by substance abuse issues?

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Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)—Pseudoscientific Theory Used Against Survivors in Court—Is Rejected from the DSM-V
Joan Meier, Professor of Clinical Law, George Washington University Law School

In the last year, it was decided that Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) and its offspring (Parental Alienation Disorder) will not be included in the Fifth Edition of the Physicians' Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-V). This is very good news for victims of abuse.

PAS or parental alienation (PA) was invented as a quasi-scientific theory to refute allegations of abuse by one parent against another in the context of a custody battle. The theory starts from the obvious premise that separating parents are often derogatory about each other to the children. But the theory spins into ideology when it suggests that where children are reluctant to spend time with their noncustodial father, they have been essentially brainwashed by an "alienating" mother. PAS/PA labeling of the mother is routinely used in court to reverse the focus from whether the abuse claims are true, to the assumption that a mother's abuse claims are themselves a kind of emotional abuse (i.e., "alienation"). PAS/PA thinking thus is used to not only silence a parent who accuses the other of domestic violence or child sexual or physical abuse but also the children's own feelings and reports, all of which are attributed to the mother's nefarious or pathological efforts. Sadly, PAS/PA (and similar) labeling has been implicated in the majority of cases where a court has ordered that an abusive parent be given unsupervised access to children.

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New Tip Sheet from NCDVTMH: Preparing for Court Proceedings with Survivors of Domestic Violence

A new resource titled “Preparing for Court Proceedings with Survivors of Domestic Violence” is now available in the Law and Legal Advocacy Tipsheets<http://nationalcenterdvtraumamh.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=7d123b3bc6efba6e11d584a32&id=077cb8c9db&e=afd3005382> page under Publications & Products<http://nationalcenterdvtraumamh.us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=7d123b3bc6efba6e11d584a32&id=6657be2045&e=afd3005382> on the NCDVTMH website<http://nationalcenterdvtraumamh.us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=7d123b3bc6efba6e11d584a32&id=abdeb5e93a&e=afd3005382>.

Legal proceedings are often stressful for participants, whether or not they are survivors of trauma. Many survivors of domestic violence find the proceedings challenging in ways specific to the trauma they have experienced—ways that others may not be able to anticipate. For legal advocates and attorneys, your ability to recognize and adjust to the challenges survivors experience will affect their ability to participate in and contribute to successful outcomes in their cases. "Preparing for Court Proceedings with Survivors of Domestic Violence" is a new tip sheet from the National Center on Domestic Violence, Trauma & Mental Health that provides suggestions to help you think through strategies to support survivors involved in legal cases.

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Mental Health Initiatives in the Aftermath of the Sandy Hook Tragedy: Implications for the DV Field
Rachel White-Domain, JD, Project Manager & Policy Associate, NCDVTMH

The Sandy Hook tragedy has raised a number of issues that have implications for DV advocacy work, including issues related to gun control1<http://nationalcenterdvtraumamh.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7d123b3bc6efba6e11d584a32&id=6b56470e56&e=afd3005382> and mental health services. President Obama’s plan includes several initiatives related to mental health, and several states have launched their own initiatives as well.

While improving the mental health system—which has suffered devastating cuts over the past several years—is critical, national conversations about the need for mental health care have sometimes reflected stigma and confusion about mental illness and dangerousness.

The vast majority of people who have been diagnosed with a mental illness are not violent. On the contrary, they are more likely to be the victims of violence, including interpersonal and domestic violence. As Wayne Lindstrom of Mental Health America stated in his remarks to the House Democratic Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, “We must decouple the immediate thought that mental illness equals violence; it does not. . . . But violence does impact mental health.”2<http://nationalcenterdvtraumamh.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=7d123b3bc6efba6e11d584a32&id=5abd9a2cc8&e=afd3005382>

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Research Update: Three New Articles on the Relationship Between IPV and Mental Health

Over the past 30 years, there have been numerous studies documenting the health and mental health consequences of domestic violence. Intimate partner violence (IPV) can play a significant role in the development and exacerbation of mental health conditions, lead to poorer physical health, and influence the course of recovery from psychiatric illness. Many IPV survivors also experience multiple types of trauma over the course of their lives, putting them at even greater risk for these effects. A trio of recent research reviews explores these associations between IPV and mental health and their implications for mental health practice.

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Contents

  *   Results from Our Nationwide Survey of DV Coalitions

  *   NCDVTMH Hosts Trauma Symposium at the NNEDV Roundtable Meeting in Seattle

  *   NCDVTMH Review of Trauma-Specific Treatment in the Context of Domestic Violence

  *   Advocates Ask

  *   Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS)—Pseudoscientific Theory Used Against Survivors in Court—Is Rejected from the DSM-V

  *   New Tip Sheet from NCDVTMH: Preparing for Court Proceedings with Survivors of Domestic Violence

  *   Mental Health Initiatives in the Aftermath of the Sandy Hook Tragedy: Implications for the DV Field

  *   Research Update: Three New Articles on the Relationship Between IPV and Mental Health

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