Assault of community-based mental health professionals is a worldwide phenomenon, and current extant literature examines the prevalence of client assault on counselors, social workers, and psychiatric personnel. While there is significant quantitative scholarship on the incidence of this phenomenon on social workers and psychiatric personnel, there are limited statistical data on client-perpetrated violence against community-based counselors and no qualitative studies found that examined how these professionals experience this occupation risk. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore how counselors who work in community-based settings make sense of these experiences. Through semi structured interviews, 6 community-based counselors living in the Southeastern region of the U.S. shared their lived experience of client assault. Hermeneutic was used as a methodological and theoretical framework to analyze the data. The following themes emerged from the data study: training as a management strategy, ambivalence as a new way of being, and connections for well-being. The results of this study have training, practice, supervision, and social change implications. Through adding counselors'€™ voices to the discourse on client assault, the findings of this study can be used to identify experiences and training that will assist counselors in caring for themselves in the aftermath of an assault. Furthermore, understanding these experiences may inform the development of protocols for keeping this vulnerable population safe.

Partnervåld med dödlig utgång mot en kvinna utgör ungefär 20-30 procent av alla mord i Sverige och under 2019 resulterade våldet i att 16 kvinnor dödades. Forskningsläget är idag tudelat angående om förövare av dödligt partnervåld ska behandlas som en separat grupp från andra förövare av dödligt våld. Syftet var därmed att jämföra män som dödat sin kvinnliga partner/ex-partner med män som dödat en annan person som de inte hade en parrelation med, specifikt gällande typ av våld och psykisk störning. Studien har använt en tvärsnittsdesign med ett retrospektivt förhållningssätt där ett urval på totalt 160 domar använts från år 2015 till 2020. Resultatet visade en signifikant skillnad där män som dödat sin kvinnliga partner/ex-partner använde reaktivt våld i högre utsträckning jämfört med män som dödat en annan person som de inte hade en parrelation med som istället övervägande använde instrumentellt våld. Gällande psykisk störning fanns ingen signifikant skillnad mellan grupperna. Sammanfattningsvis bidrar det faktum att grupperna skiljer sig åt gällande typ av våld till forskningsläget genom att ge en indikation på att de bör särskiljas. / Intimate partner violence with a deadly outcome against a woman constitutes approximately 20-30 percent of all homicides in Sweden, during 2019 the violence resulted in 16 women being murdered. Research today is considered to be divided regarding whether perpetrators of intimate partner homicide should be considered a separate group from other perpetrators of deadly violence. The purpose of this study was therefore to compare men who have murdered their female intimate partner/ex-partner with men who have murdered another person they didn’t have an intimate relationship with, specifically regarding type of violence and mental disorder. The study used a cross sectional design with a retrospective approach and a sample of totally 160 verdicts from 2015 to 2020. The results showed a significant difference where men who have murdered their female intimate partner/ex-partner used reactive violence to a greater extent compared to men who have murdered another person that they didn’t have an intimate relationship with, who instead predominantly used instrumental violence. Regarding mental disorder there were no significant differences between the groups. In conclusion, the fact that the groups differ in type of violence contributes to the research field by giving an indication that they should be distinguished.