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Combatting Intimate Partner Violence: Representations of Social and Healthcare Personnel Working with Gender-Based Violence Interventions

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  • Marcella Autiero

    (OLV (Oltre La Violenza) Project, Naples Health Service, Piazza Nazionale, 95, 80143 Naples, Italy)

  • Fortuna Procentese

    (Department of Humanities, University of Naples “Federico II” Via Porta di Massa, 80133 Naples, Italy)

  • Stefania Carnevale

    (Department of Humanities, University of Naples “Federico II” Via Porta di Massa, 80133 Naples, Italy)

  • Caterina Arcidiacono

    (Department of Humanities, University of Naples “Federico II” Via Porta di Massa, 80133 Naples, Italy)

  • Immacolata Di Napoli

    (Department of Humanities, University of Naples “Federico II” Via Porta di Massa, 80133 Naples, Italy)

Abstract

Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been declared a global epidemic by the World Health Organization. Although the attention paid to both the perpetrators and victims of gender-based violence has increased, scientific research is still lacking in regard to the representations of operators involved in interventions and management. Therefore, the following study explores how the representations of operators affect how gender violence can be managed and combatted through an ecological approach to this phenomenon, in addition to highlighting the roles of organizational-level services and their cultural and symbolic substrates. In total, 35 health and social professionals were interviewed and textual materials were analyzed by thematic analysis. The evidence suggests that services contrasting gender-based violence utilize different representations and management approaches. The authors hope that these differences can become a resource, rather than a limitation, when combatting gender-based violence through the construction of more integrated networks and a greater dialogue among different services, in order to make interventions designed to combat gender-based violence more effective.

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  • Marcella Autiero & Fortuna Procentese & Stefania Carnevale & Caterina Arcidiacono & Immacolata Di Napoli, 2020. "Combatting Intimate Partner Violence: Representations of Social and Healthcare Personnel Working with Gender-Based Violence Interventions," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(15), pages 1-16, July.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:15:p:5543-:d:392656
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