What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: The importance of family violence screening tools for family law practitioners

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Table of Contents

• Executive Summary
• Setting the Context
  • Defining Family Violence
• Dynamics of Family Violence
• The Role of Trauma
• Relationship Between Family Violence and Family Court
  • Why Screening is Important for Family Law Practitioners
  • Differences Between Risk Assessment and Screening Tools
• Methodology
  • FVST Working Group
• Identification of Screening Tools
  • Figure 1. Academic and Grey Literature Search Terms
  • Table 1. FVST Search Parameters
  • Analysis of Screening Tools and Literature
• Findings
  • Family Violence Screening Tools Literature Review
• Analysis of Screening Tools
  • Figure 2. Number of FVST tools developed for use by sector
  • Figure 3. Frequency of Question Type
  • Figure 4. Most Common Question Types
  • Figure 5. FVST Country Affiliations
  • Table 2. Most and Least Comprehensive FVSTs
  • Figure 6. Percentage of Assessment/Scoring Procedures for FVSTs
  • Figure 7. Assessment/Scoring Procedures Used in Family Law FVSTs
  • Figure 8. Assessment/Scoring Procedures Used in Mediation FVSTs
  • Recommended FV Screening Practices
  • Table 3. Recommended FV Screening Practices Among Analyzed FVSTs
• Informational Interviews
• Discussion
• Recommendations
• References
• Appendix A
  • Informational Interview Subject Sectors
• Appendix B
  • Recommended Screening Tool Questions