B2 - Early Outcomes from a Pilot Evaluation of Multisystemic Therapy-Intimate Partner Violence (MST-IPV): Comprehensive Family Treatment for Families Involved in the Child Protective Service System

In this session, the presenters will provide a clinical overview and preliminary outcome data for an innovative new treatment model, Multisystemic Therapy for Intimate Partner Violence (MST-IPV), designed to comprehensively address the co-occurring problem of child maltreatment and IPV within families involved in the child protective service system. MST-IPV provides evidence-based conjoint couples therapy to help partners stay together without violence or separate safely while maintaining a coparenting relationship. In MST-IPV, conjoint couples treatment is provided along with an array of individualized treatments for all family members to address the drivers (e.g., parental substance abuse) and consequences (e.g., adult and child trauma symptoms) of IPV.

Presenters: Cindy M. Schaeffer, University of Maryland Child Psychiatry, Baltimore, MD; and Cynthia C. Swenson, Division of Global and Community Health, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC