Enhancing the Impact of Family Justice Centers via Motivational Interviewing: An Integrated Review
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2016
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Trauma, Violence, & Abuse
Abstract
The Family Justice Center (FJC) model is an approach to assisting survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) that focuses on
integration of services under one roof and co-location of staff members from a range of multidisciplinary agencies. Even though
the FJC model is touted as a best practice strategy to help IPV survivors, empirical support for the effectiveness of this approach is
scarce. The current article consolidates this small yet promising body of empirically based literature in a clinically focused review.
Findings point to the importance of integrating additional resources into the FJC model to engage IPV survivors who have
ambivalent feelings about whether to accept help, leave the abusive relationship, and/or participate in criminal justice processes to
hold the offender accountable. One such resource, motivational interviewing (MI), holds promise in aiding IPV survivors with
these decisions, but empirical investigation into how MI can be incorporated into the FJC model has yet to be published. This
article, therefore, also integrates the body of literature supporting the FJC model with the body of literature supporting MI with
IPV survivors. Implications for practice, policy, and research are incorporated throughout this review.
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family justice centers, multidisciplinary teams, legal intervention, domestic violence, cultural contexts, intervention
Citation
Simmons, C. A., Howell, K. H., Duke, M. R., & Beck, J. G. (2016). Enhancing the impact of Family Justice Centers via motivational interviewing: An integrated review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 17(5), 532-541.