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General Practitioners are the main coordinating point for addressing the health needs of women experiencing non-fatal strangulation and sexual choking. Intimate partner violence in Australia contributes more to death, disability and illness in women aged 25 to 44 than any other preventable risk factor. Recent Australian research has also shown that sexual choking is prevalent in more than half of young people aged 18 to 35.

The purpose of this webinar is to share the latest information on non-fatal strangulation in the context of domestic, family and sexual violence, and in consensual sexual choking.

Key insights from the women’s health sector and brain injury rehabilitation services will be used to start a conversation about the important role primary healthcare providers play in identifying, screening and addressing the short- and long-term needs of women who experience strangulation or engage in sexual choking.

Presented by:

Women's Health NSW

Facilitator: Courtney Artridge: Project Officer, Women’s Health NSW

Guest Speakers:

Dr Ellie Freedman: Manager, Staff Specialist Clinical Forensic Medicine, NSW Health

Dr Jamie Berry: Founder & Senior Clinical Neuropsychologist, Advanced Neuropsychological Treatment Services

Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify the different context in which patients can experience strangulation and how these contexts require different health responses
2. Identify when to suspect and screen for non-fatal strangulation and sexual choking
3. Reflect on barriers that may prevent patient disclosure of strangulation and/or sexual choking
4. Identify language considerations that may help patients overcome barriers to disclosing
5. Describe the benefits of a multidisciplinary response for patients who may have sustained a brain injury from strangulation and/or sexual choking
6. Identify practical advice for patients on how to manage a brain injury caused by strangulation and/or sexual choking
7. Reflect on how health promotion messaging may diff er between communities and among diverse groups

Target audience: GPs, nurses and Allied Health Professionals

In partnership with Hunter New England Central Coast PHN and Nepean Blue Mountains PHN.

**Please note that attendance records including contact details will be shared with the partnering PHNs.

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