Dr. Avery Neal’s Books

You are already seeing these patients, people living with psychological abuse and intimate partner violence, and the children growing up in those homes. They come to the emergency department, cardiology, gynecology, endocrinology, neurology, gastroenterology, rheumatology, pediatrics, and family medicine with hypertension, migraine, chronic pain, irritable bowel, insomnia, fatigue, autoimmune flares, anxiety or depression that does not respond to treatment, and children with attention, learning, and behavioral problems that have no clear cause. Psychological abuse is the most common form of intimate partner violence, one in two Americans report experiencing it in their lifetime, and with no injury to point to it rarely appears in a chart. The emergency department is the largest point of entry, yet 77 percent of intimate partner violence victims treated there were never identified as abuse victims, and 71 percent of their visits were for medical complaints rather than injuries. Emergency nurses, physicians, and frontline care teams are the professionals best positioned to recognize it, and most were never taught to see it. This training series gives you the clinical foundation to recognize psychological abuse in your patients and their children, understand its physical, mental, and developmental effects, and identify and refer in a way that improves outcomes and strengthens the value of care. Distributed by Rittenhouse Digital.