1.  The topic:
 impacts of intimate partner violence on
children that have either been a victim of
abuse from their parental figures or that have
witnessed this occur.
 The literature reveals:
 that the impact of intimate partner violence
negatively impacts the child development.
 Causing many internalizing and externalizing
problems into/throughout adulthood.
 Other relationship factors also influence their
development - such as relationship with their
mother and father figure.
 Problem Statement:
 What are the impacts of intimate
partner violence on 0-18 year olds?
 Subproblem:
 How can this be applied to improve
intervention and counseling?
 Hypotheses:
 I think that exposure to intimate
partner violence negatively impacts
0-18 year olds.
The method used was qualitative interviews.
The interviews included a list of six main
questions.
Interview data collected was organized in
various categories for each item to show trends.
Overall finding:
Intimate partner violence does have negitive
impacts on 0-18 year olds.
Hypothesis proven to be true.
Parent(s) play a major role in severity of the
abuse impacts on the child.
Parent(s) heavily influence the child in
participating in healthy counseling
methods and interventions.
The main areas that are impacted by intimate partner
violence for children are: social relationships,
emotions, behavior, physical problems, academic
performance.
Problems in school and issues of aggressive behavior
are the most shown signs to indicate that the child
may be exposed to the violence.
The more severe the abuse is – the more impacts seen
in the intensity of displayed behaviors.
Parent(s) typically try to deny that the child has been
exposed to the initiate partner violence taking place.
The best interventions have been seen in building
good rapport with the child, by creating trust and
honesty in the counseling relationship.
 Gewirtz, A. H., & Edleson, J. L.,(2007). Young children’s exposure to
intimate partner violence: Towards a developmental risk and resilience
framework for research and intervention. Journal of Family Violence, 22(3),
151-163. doi:10.1007/s10896-007-9065-3
 Greeson, M., Kennedy, A., Bybee, D., Beeble, M., Adams, A., & Sullivan, C.
(2014). Beyond deficits: Intimate partner violence, maternal parenting, and
child behavior over time. American Journal of Community Psychology,
54(1/2), 46-58. doi:10.1007/s10464-014-9658-y
 Heugten, K. v., & Wilson, E. (2008). Witnessing intimate partner violence:
Review of the literature on coping in young persons. Aotearoa New Zealand
Social Work Review, 20(3), 52-62.
 Stride, S., Geffner, R., & Lincoln, A. (2008). The Physiological and
traumatic effects of childhood exposure to intimate partner violence. Journal
of Emotional Abuse, 8(1/2), 83-101.
Morgan J. Pearson
Email:
morgan.pearson@mail.northcentral.edu
North Central University
Morgan Pearson
Impacts of Intimate Partner Violence on 0-18 Year Olds
INTRODUCTION and LIT REVIEW
SUBPROBLEMS and HYPOTHESES
METHOD
RESULTS DISCUSSION
REFERENCES
CONTACT
Participants
Professionals currently working from a convince
sample.
Working in direct service with 0-18 year olds
impacted by intimate partner violence.
Materials
 A structured interview conducted.
A total of six questions asked.
Procedure
Face-to-face interview with the participant.
Data measured by each question as an item.
Each item had categories according to the participants
answers.
Each response tallied to find the most answered.