Applying Trauma-Informed Care to Intimate Partner Violence

This is an archive of a past event.

Trauma-informed care (TIC) is understood with wide variability as is its application in health care settings. Using case examples this presentation will demonstrate how to apply the principles of TIC during clinical encounters with patients either disclosing or at risk of intimate partner violence (IPV). 

​​By the end of this event, participants will be able to: 

1. Define trauma and trauma-informed care (TIC) principles. 
2. Describe the applications of TIC to their respective health care setting. 
3. Apply the principles of TIC to assessing risk and developing care plans for patients experiencing IPV. 

Presenter(s)

Dr. Annie Lewis-O’Connor is a Pediatric and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner.  She is the Founder and Director of a trauma & strength informed clinic) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital inBoston, where she also is the Director of Research & Innovation and Global Nursing for the Center of Nursing Excellence. She is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School. Annie addresses trauma, violence and abuse from four pillars: Research, Policy, Education, and Clinical practice. Her current research is exploring the feasibility, acceptability and impact of trauma-informed care plan in EPIC from the perspective of patients and clinicians. She received her Master’s in nursing from Simmons College in Boston, a Master’s in Public Health from Boston University and her PhD from Boston College.