MatCHNet webinar: Identifying and responding to intimate partner violence in parents and children

Identifying and responding to intimate partner violence in parents and children presenting to healthcare in the first 1000 days
Date: 20th March 2024
Speaker: Dr Shabeer Syed, Clinical Psychologist and Senior Research Associate.
Shabeer works part-time at the NIHR Children and Families Policy Research Unit at UCL ICH and part-time at the CAMHS Assertive Outreach Team at the South London & Maudsley NHS FT. Shabeer's research focuses on adverse childhood experiences and using anonymised electronic health records to inform policy and service provision for vulnerable families and children.
The first 1000 days represent a period of increased healthcare monitoring of families, providing crucial opportunities to identify and respond to parents and children affected by intimate partner violence (IPV). However, most practitioners in primary care do not identify IPV.
In this seminar, Shabeer presents recently published research from the NIHR Children and Families research unit (CPRU) aimed at improving responses to IPV among children and parents who present to healthcare before, during, and after pregnancy.
We delve into the findings of a population-based birth cohort study of electronic health records, exploring clinically relevant family adversity indicators (www.acesinehrs.com) that should prompt healthcare professionals to ask about IPV and support during the crucial first 1000 days.
This research was commissioned by the DHSC for England and conducted by the Children and Families Policy Research Unit at UCL.