Considering the relationship between domestic violence and pet abuse and its significance in the veterinary clinical and educational contexts

Newland, X; Boller, Manuel; Boller, Elise Mittleman

doi:10.1080/00480169.2018.1559108

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“… Developing community education campaigns to alert the public and cross-train professionals about how animal abuse is linked with IPV. Veterinarians, in particular, whose staffs and clients are predominantly female, should begin to recognize a responsibility to serve as resources for survivors of IPV (Larkin, 2018 ; Newland, Boller, & Boller, 2019 ). …”

Section: Incorporating These Dynamics Into Career Opportunities Beyonmentioning

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“…An incident in DeLand, Fla. in 2018, when a woman being held captive at gunpoint by her abusive boyfriend was able to alert veterinary staff who in turn called the police (Robbins, 2018 ), brought to national attention what was just beginning to be discussed in professional journals: how should veterinarians and their staffs, the majority of whom now are women (Kelly, 2017 ), respond to suspected domestic violence in their clientele? (Newland et al, 2019 ; Larkin, 2018 ; Allison, Satterwhite, Ramaswamy, Hynek, & Agnew-Svoboda, 2017 ).…”

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Human–Animal Relationships and Social Work: Opportunities Beyond the Veterinary Environment

Arkow

2020

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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A species-spanning approach that incorporates clients' relationships with their companion animals into family genograms, schools of social work curricula, continuing education, interviews, assessments, and interventions offers increased career opportunities, professional and personal growth and development, and a more comprehensive resolution of clients' issues, social justice concerns, and the prevention of family violence. This article identifies six reasons why social workers should be cognizant of human-animal relationships and introduces nine ways, with action steps, in which social workers can include these relationships into training and practice outside the more developed field of veterinary social work. These venues include: agencies working in child protection and child sexual abuse; children's advocacy centers and courthouse facility dogs; animal shelters; domestic violence shelters; public policy advocacy; clinical practice; agencies working with older and disabled populations; veterinary sentinels for intimate partner violence; and pet support services for homeless populations. Such attention to the human-animal bond can utilize social workers' problem-solving skills to improve delivery of services, identify clients' risk and resiliency factors, enhance social and environmental justice, expand academic inquiry, and increase attention to all of the vulnerable members of families and communities.

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Section: Incorporating These Dynamics Into Career Opportunities Beyonmentioning

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Section: Incorporating These Dynamics Into Career Opportunities Beyonmentioning

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Human–Animal Relationships and Social Work: Opportunities Beyond the Veterinary Environment

Arkow

2020

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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“…Both international and national studies have identified that animals are commonly harmed or killed as a form of family violence and a significant number of women and their children remain in abusive relationships due to concerns for the safety of their pets/animals (Bright et al, 2018;Haden et al, 2018;Roguksi, 2012;Williams et al, 2008). Recognition of this link between animal abuse and family violence has led to a call for greater awareness, and for more interprofessional training, education and cross-referral between human and animal welfare professionals (Holcombe et al, 2016;Newland et al, 2019;Randour et al, 2019;Strand et al, 2012;Williams et al, 2008). Despite the prolific research correlating interpersonal violence, family violence, and child and adult animal cruelty mentioned, challenges for cross-sector reporting are still hindered by the separation of animal and human welfare when it comes to intervention (Long et al, 2007).…”

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“…The workshop has been a successful interdisciplinary partnership between the two schools. While currently published evidence of implementation and success of veterinary student education regarding the link between animal abuse and family violence is limited (Newland et al, 2019), the collaboration can be seen as addressing the educational gaps of veterinary student education about the link. Due to the limited published literature regarding the design, implementation and success of veterinary training focusing on the link between animal abuse and family violence and its relevance in the clinical context, contextualisation has been the main pedagogy that enhances meaningful learning in the area concerned (Litchfield et al, 2010).…”

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Animal abuse and family violence: Reflections from workshopping with veterinary students

Dale

Yeung

2021

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The notion of social work teaching in the veterinary science programme may seem novel for our profession. However, the philosophy underlying the context of animal and human welfare in One Health is the result of the collaborative effort of multiple disciplines and professions to attain optimal health for people, animals and the environment. One Health emphasises some of the key domains such as creating an enabling environment and advocating change and communication amongst healthcare professionals (Courtenay et al., 2014). Even when interprofessional education (IPE) and One Health competencies are evident in courses, Courtenay and colleagues (2014) noted that they are mostly at clinical level. In recent years, there has been a call for more collaboration between human and veterinary medicine to learn and practise One Health competencies, and “links” between the abuse of children, vulnerable adults and animals have been identified as a key area for exploration (Arkow, 2015a; Jordan Lem, 2014). In 2015, the second author and the Head of School of Social Work at Massey University had the opportunity to skype with Dr Elizabeth Strand, the Founding Director of Veterinary Social Work (VSW) (Strand et al., 2012), from University of Tennessee-Knoxville to discuss setting up VSW and also to seek adviceon challenges and strategies on engaging and collaborating with the veterinary school. Dr Strand shared her experiences and encouraged us to contact the Head of the Veterinary School at our university to start a conversation. Our Head of School approached the then Head of School of Veterinary Science and within days a meeting was organised. We went into the meeting expecting a first level of exploration with the Head of School to see if he was interested but were surprised when we were joined by another senior lecturer (SG) who had been re-designing the course content of professional practice for veterinarian students. He was very keen of our idea on working with him to develop a module on teaching his students about the link between animal abuse and family violence. It seemed the Veterinary School hadbeen identifying gaps in their curriculum for some time in relation to health and wellbeing, communication skills and conflict resolution, but they had only accessed support from student health services at the university. He also acknowledged the increasing attention in research literature about the link between human and animal violence as a pivotal area that could be integrated within the Veterinary Science Professional Practice curriculum, but did not realise that social work could play a role in supporting their curriculum and knowledge building. The meeting was a success, and within a year, we started our contribution by running the first two-hour workshop with first-year veterinary students discussing animal abuse and family violence, a workshop which then became a regular feature of the veterinary programme between 2016 and 2018. The purpose of this paper is to provide a description of what was included in the educational contexts, reflections from veterinary students’ engagement and future needs to connect between human service and animal service professionals to address the link.

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“…The legal definition of animal abuse varies among jurisdictions, but a common definition is a socially unacceptable behavior that causes unnecessary pain, suffering or distress to and/or the death of an animal [1]. Animal abuse causes pain and suffering for animals, it can cause psychological distress for people, and it is known to be associated with other violent and non‐violent crimes [2–4]. In addition, the behavior is not a new phenomenon and evidence for NAI has been found in the archaeological record [5].…”

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A multidisciplinary investigation of chronic animal abuse: Collaboration between veterinary forensics and forensic anthropology

Smith‐Blackmore

Bethard

2020

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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In veterinary forensics, non-accidental injury (NAI) refers to trauma arising from physical abuse of an animal. The legal definition of animal abuse varies among jurisdictions, but a common definition is a socially unacceptable behavior that causes unnecessary pain, suffering or distress to and/or the death of an animal [1]. Animal abuse causes pain and suffering for animals, it can cause psychological distress for people, and it is known to be associated with other violent and non-violent crimes [2-4]. In addition, the behavior is not a new phenomenon and evidence for NAI has been found in the archaeological record [5]. Thorough analysis of nonaccidental trauma to animals can assist investigators better understand the chronology and other facts associated with a crime of animal abuse. Forensic veterinarians can work with forensic anthropologists to add detailed understanding of an animal's injury pattern. 1.1 | Non-accidental injury characteristics in dogs Some injuries are obviously associated with NAI such as cigarette and microwave burns. Others, such as contusions, lacerations, and fractures, are common in accidental injury [6]. In cases where cause of injury is ambiguous, further evidence is required to support a diagnosis of NAI. Recognizing this need, several investigators have published work which provides a framework for diagnosing NAI. For example, in a review of radiographic features of fractures in 19 dogs with abuse fractures and 135 dogs with accidental fractures, some radiographic commonalities were found [7]. Radiographic findings indicated that the following five features should raise the index of suspicion of and support a diagnosis of NAI: (a) the presence of multiple fractures; (b) fractures occurring on more than one region of the body (forelimb, hindlimb, and axial); (c) transverse fractures; (d) fractures presenting at a later stage of healing (delayed presentation); and (d) multiple fractures at different stages of healing [7].

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Considering the relationship between domestic violence and pet abuse and its significance in the veterinary clinical and educational contexts

Cited by 12 publications

References 46 publications

Human–Animal Relationships and Social Work: Opportunities Beyond the Veterinary Environment

Human–Animal Relationships and Social Work: Opportunities Beyond the Veterinary Environment

Animal abuse and family violence: Reflections from workshopping with veterinary students

A multidisciplinary investigation of chronic animal abuse: Collaboration between veterinary forensics and forensic anthropology

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