This guide focuses on the transformative role of the adolescent health care provider in preventing, identifying and addressing adolescent relationship abuse. These guidelines are applicable to providers working in a range of settings serving adolescents, including adolescent health, pediatrics, family planning clinics, and school-based health centers.
Includes:
Definitions, prevalence, and dimensions of Adolescent Relationship Abuse (ARA)
An overview of confidentiality and reporting issues and patient-centered reporting
Clinical strategies to promote universal education about healthy relationships
Clinical strategies to provide direct assessment and harm reduction strategies for reproductive coercion and ARA
An overview of preparing your practice to address ARA
Keys for success, including developing relationships with local domestic violence advocates and community programs
Policy recommendations
