National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Journal - Issue 1 - A Collaborative 21st Century Call for Action

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Explores intimate partner violence (IPV) as an urgent public health issue spanning physical, sexual, and psychological harm across current and former intimate relationships. Frames IPV’s rise in the context of COVID-19 and K-12 schooling by linking community-level stressors to bullying and sudden pandemic-driven ecosystem changes. Reviews literature on IPV terminology and demographics, and outlines evidence-based micro, mezzo, and macro interventions grounded in social work and education for at-risk children and society.

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Intimate Partner Violence

National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Journal | Volume 8 Issue 1 | Article 8 | | --- | --- | | November 2025
Intimate Partner Violence, Covid, Bullying, the K-12 Connection: A Collaborative 21st Century Call for Action!
Irma Gibson
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Follow this and additional works at: [https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar](https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar) | | Recommended Citation Gibson, I. (2025) . Intimate partner violence, COVID, bullying, the K-12 connection: A collaborative 21st century call for action!. National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Journal, 8(1), 55-92 . [https://doi.org/](https://doi.org/)[ ](https://doi.org/)10.20429/nyarj.2025.080108 This written workshop report is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Georgia Southern Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Journal by an authorized administrator of Georgia Southern Commons. For more information, please contact [digitalcommons@georgiasouthern.edu](digitalcommons@georgiasouthern.edu). Intimate Partner Violence, Covid, Bullying, the K-12 Connection: A Collaborative 21st Century Call for Action! Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. This written workshop report is available in National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Journal: [https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar/vol8/iss1/8](https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nyar/vol8/iss1/8) INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE, COVID, BULLYING, THE K-12 CONNECTION: A COLLABORATIVE 21ST CENTURY CALL FOR ACTION! INTRODUCTION Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) refers to aggressive behavior that occurs within current and former intimate relationships and leads to physical, sexual, and/or psychological harm ([Robertson et. al](Robertson et. al)., 2024). Harmful behaviors may be physical aggression, sexual coercion, psychological abuse and controlling actions (World Health Organization (WHO), 2017; Fazel et al., 2024) . Historically called “domestic violence”(DV), IPV can occur among heterosexual or same-sex couples (St. Lewis & Robinson, 2017). IPV is a public health problem that costs the U. S. over $5.8 billion yearly (Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), 2014) statistically leading with women victims who are often the primary caregiver of children (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP), 2020). According to Arnett (2024), research findings reveal a yearly exposure rate of 1 in 15 children. Effectively addressing these issues from a public health perspective can only be realized with strong inclusive partnerships at the global, regional, national and/or local levels (Oprisan et. al., 2021) . This call to action must include a focus on the public health viewpoint and two causal and extenuating relationship factors: bullying, which is the number one discipline problem reported within the K-12 setting, and the sudden impact ofCOVID, which contextually changed the ecosystem. Emerging data show that since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic violence against women and girls, particularly domestic violence, has intensified (United Nations Development Program (UNDP) (2021) . This article will discuss the impact of these public health nuisances and problems upon society and the field of education in the 21st century. An examination of the precursors and dynamics of IPV specific to at-risk childhood behaviors will be discussed and analyzed. And equally important, CDCP evidence-based micro, mezzo and macro strategic interventions and theoretical frameworks embraced and utilized by the social work profession will be addressed. These methods have been proven effective in therapeutic, educational and community settings. (Gibson, 2019a; Gibson, 2023) . LITERATURE REVIEW Intimate Partner Violence Today, the terms domestic violence and intimate partner violen

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What does the article define as intimate partner violence (IPV)?

IPV is described as aggressive behavior within current and former intimate relationships that leads to physical, sexual, and/or psychological harm, including controlling actions and abuse.

How does the article connect IPV with COVID-19 and K-12 bullying?

It argues that pandemic-related ecosystem changes intensified violence against women and girls and calls for action that also addresses bullying as a major K-12 discipline problem.

What interventions does the article emphasize for addressing these problems?

It highlights evidence-based strategic interventions at micro, mezzo, and macro levels, supported by theoretical frameworks used in the social work profession and applied in therapeutic, educational, and community settings.

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