‘“She Tells Me I'm Pushy” is More Likely than the Man Directly Admitting to Being Pushy’:

What are the barriers and enablers to identifying and assessing risk of IPSV when working with victim-survivors and perpetrators of DFV in the perpetrator intervention context? 46 Volume 13 (2) 2024 Helps Survey The survey was hosted on Qualtrics online platform and contained both quantitative (asked on a five-point Likert-scale) and qualitative questions. [...] The survey also asked practitioners about their screening and risk assessment practices, including questions about the assessment tools utilised, frequency of assessing for IPSV victimisation and perpetration, and the barriers and enablers to undertaking these assessments. [...] (2023: 32) Results for both frequency items—frequency of assessing risk of IPSV and frequency of assessing risk of IPSV compared to other forms of DFV—illustrate greater reported frequency of assessing risk of IPSV victimisation (M=4.00 and M=2.80) compared to perpetration (M=3.80 and M=2.52), as shown in Tables 1 and 2. [...] A third barrier to screening and risk assessment of IPSV is perpetrators' and victim-survivors' understandings of consent and of what is ‘normal’ in intimate relationships. [...] In speaking to the limitations of existing tools, practitioners described the ‘blunt’ nature of assessment questions, and the focus on ‘force’ and sexual assault.