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Intimate Partner Violence Lab


IPVLab

The IPVLab's goal is to provide quality research to be used by clinicians, researchers, and other stakeholders to help prevent and treat intimate partner violence (IPV). IPV is a complex problem with several layers – it can involve physical violence, sexual violence, or emotional abuse.

IPVLab is directed by Dr. Gunnur Karakurt, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University. Research in IPVLab focuses on multiple interconnected problems to comprehensively characterize IPV, its treatment, and its consequences. Ongoing research projects include:

  • Investigating the effectiveness of interventions used in treatments, measuring how well these methods help reduce the recurrence and escalation of violence in intimate relationships.
  • Examining violence as it relates to the health of individuals, studying both the etiology and consequences.
  • Using electronic health records data to identify health-related concerns of violence.

Ultimately the KarakurtLab's research produces strong, empirically validated intervention strategies to help prevent and treat the different forms of intimate relationship violence. By measuring the health-related effects of violence, our research also helps clinicians to screen and identify risk groups in order to prevent violence in intimate relationships, and provide a higher quality of care for victims of abuse, perpetrators, and families.

Tools

The subgroup identifying test will ask you a series of questions on a scale from 1-10 in order to provide information on the subgroup your intimate partner violence (IPV) to better understand and offer resources for your specific issues.

This test is completely anonymous and no identifying data is stored. The protection of your privacy is paramount to our mission and is a top priority.


Subtyping Violence Test


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Our Mission

Our mission is to help individuals to understand conflict in their relationships with research-based discoveries and provide insights for fostering healthier relationships with their partners and families.



Our Values

Our values are to apply interdisciplinary collaboration in order to provide quality research-based information that is used to translate information to clinical practice while fostering a partnership with our local and global community.





Types of Violence


  • Micro-aggression: A micro-aggression is a subtle behavior directed to a partner that has a derogatory, harmful effect.
  • Psychological Abuse: A Psychological aggression is defined as the “use of verbal and non-verbal communication with the intent to harm another person mentally or emotionally, and/or exert control over another person.”
  • Physical Violence: An “intentional use of physical force with the potential for causing harm.”
  • Sexual Violence/ Coercion: “A sexual act that is committed or attempted by another person without freely giving consent of the victim or against someone who is unable to consent or refuse.”