ABSTRACT This exploratory study aimed to understand the complexities and particularities of social service practices with men who use intimate partner violence in rural areas. Ten rural service providers in Western Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia participated in qualitative, semi-structured, in-depth interviews. A combined inductive and deductive approach to thematic analysis was used to identify key themes. Themes were: metro-centrism implicit in services’ design and systems and workforce factors pertaining to experience, training, attitudes, and practitioners’ ways of working to respond to their local context. The article employs an intersectional framework to discuss the varying accounts of practitioners and the diversity between service provision in places broadly classed as “rural.” Implications are identified for the design and implementation of rural social services’ policy and, specifically, how rural communities can be best supported to respond to men’s use of IPV.

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从业人员如何应对男人在农村地区使用亲密伴侣暴力

摘要这项探索性研究旨在了解在农村地区使用亲密伴侣暴力的男人的社会服务实践的复杂性和特殊性。西澳大利亚州，新南威尔士州，维多利亚州和南澳大利亚州的十个农村服务提供者参加了定性，半结构化的深入访谈。主题分析采用归纳和演绎相结合的方法来确定关键主题。主题是：隐含在服务设计和系统中的都市中心主义以及与经验，培训，态度和从业者的工作方式相关的劳动力因素，以响应当地情况。本文采用一个交叉框架来讨论从业人员的不同说法以及在广泛归类为“农村”的地方提供的服务之间的差异。