CATCH Model

Health practitioner’s readiness model: The CATCH model

Hegarty, K., McKibbin, G., Hameed, M., Koziol-McLain, J., Feder, G., Tarzia, L., Hooker, L., (2020) Health practitioners' readiness to address domestic violence and abuse: A qualitative meta-synthesis. PLOS One.

As a health professional, how ready are you to identify and respond to intimate partner violence?

Addressing readiness in education and training is more likely to enable clinicians to become physically and emotionally equipped for the work.

Use the checklist below to give yourself a readiness score.

Five themes were identified as enhancing health practitioner readiness:

• Having a commitment motivated from a human rights, child rights or a feminist lens or a personal experience of IPA ;

• Adopting an advocacy approach with survivors giving positive feedback;

• Trusting the relationship in the health setting is ideal for the work;

• Collaborating with a team; and

• Being supported by the health system.