Domestic to Interpersonal Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach: Treatment, Prevention, and Prosecution (Interdisciplinary Learning, 3)

Domestic to Interpersonal Violence: An Interdisciplinary Approach is geared toward medicolegal teams looking to gain knowledge on the various facets of domestic, intimate partner, and interpersonal violence. The book contains thoughtful case studies and assessment questions for readers to test and apply their knowledge.

It covers different facets of violence and how they may best be recognized, diagnosed, healed from, and prosecuted.

Volume 3: Treatment, Prevention, and Prosecution addresses different approaches to addressing interpersonal violence. Beginning with prevention, the chapters discuss how to advocate for victims and intervene as a multidisciplinary team. The volume concludes with prosecuting interpersonal violence and helping victims plan for a safe future.

Jaclyn Rodriguez is the SANE Coordinator for the Office of the Illinois Attorney General. She achieved a Bachelor's of Science Degree is Biomedical Engineering from the University of Illinois in 2002 and a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing from Loyola University Chicago in 2003. She has practiced as an Emergency Room Nurse in the Chicagoland area since 2003. Jaclyn is employed by the Illinois Attorney General's Office as the SANE Coordinator, at Elmhurst Memorial Hospital as an on-call SANE and works registry ER nursing shifts. Her role as the SANE Coordinator is to provide training, outreach, and support services to healthcare providers, law enforcement, advocates, State's Attorney's and others throughout the State of Illinois. Since being employed as the SANE Coordinator in 2015, she has provided education to over 8,000 individuals in the State of Illinois and nationally. She has been instrumental in helping to craft legislation that is shaping the care for sexual assault patients in the State of Illinois.

Tamara Jackson works in Chicago, Illinois, serving her community as the Regional SANE Clinical Programs Coordinator, the SANE EMS Coordinator, a Clinical Instructor, a SANE/RN II, an RN Staff Nurse, and an RN Case Manager. Tamara has earned both a Bachelor and a Master of Science in Nursing degree at Chamberlain College of Nursing and holds a license as a Registered Nurse, an Emergency Communications Registered Nurse, and a Practical Nurse. She has a multitude of certifications, from a Board-certified Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner - Adult/Adolescent and Pediatric Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner to a certification from the Neonatal Resuscitation Program and Crisis Prevention Intervention. Tamara continues to expand her education and professional development by taking courses and attending conferences on topics such as Community Training on Human Trafficking, Gender Bias in Sexual Assault Response, Forensic Evaluation of Gunshot, and the International Conference on Forensic Nursing.

Laura Albee is an Emergency Medicine Staff Physician and the Medical Director of Forensic Nursing Program at Nebraska Methodist Health System in Omaha, Nebraska. Laura graduated with a Bachelor of Science - Biotechnology in 1999 and her Doctor of Medicine degree in 2005, both at the University of Nebraska in Omaha. In 2008, she graduated from her Emergency Medicine Residency, completed at Michigan State University in Saginaw, MI. Laura belongs to a number of professional organizations including the American College of Emergency Physicians in which she has served as both a board member from 2015-2020 and the president from 2017-2019, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine, and the American Medical Association. Laura's expertise is best displayed through the wide range of professional roles that she has occupied throughout her 16 years of health care experience: an emergency medicine physician, a medical director of forensic nursing, a clinical and an advanced cardiac life support instructor, and even a special deputy sheriff. Laura currently holds a license as an ABEM Board Certified Emergency Physician, a Nebraska Medical License, and a Board of Pharmacy Controlled Substance License.