Engagement and early intervention with perpetrators of domestic abuse
Target audience
Social workers, child protection workers, and those carrying out intensive family interventions.
Trainers
Kate Iwi & Dr Chris Newman
Course Content
When someone is suspected of being violent towards their family, the onus often falls on the victim to keep the children safe. This training turns the attention back to the direct cause of the problem, by helping practitioners to engage with perpetrators, to make brief, safety-focussed interventions and motivate them towards seeking more in-depth help.
This training aims to provide practitioners with practical exercises and techniques to help them make the most of their limited client contact with perpetrators of domestic violence.
A copy of the handbook will be provided with the training.
Outcomes
Participants will be provided with the knowledge, understanding and skills to enable them to:
Cost
– Two day course - £2400 - 2 trainers, up to 30 learners
- Three day course - £3600 - 2 trainers, up to 30 learners
The three day course provides extra time to cover the issue of assessing and reporting on risk where domestic violence is a child protection concern, more in-depth practice of techniques for dealing with denial, and for the analysis of specific incidents of abuse in the assessment and early intervention stages of the work.
Target audience
Social workers, child protection workers, and those carrying out intensive family interventions.
Trainers
Kate Iwi & Dr Chris Newman
Course Content
When someone is suspected of being violent towards their family, the onus often falls on the victim to keep the children safe. This training turns the attention back to the direct cause of the problem, by helping practitioners to engage with perpetrators, to make brief, safety-focussed interventions and motivate them towards seeking more in-depth help.
This training aims to provide practitioners with practical exercises and techniques to help them make the most of their limited client contact with perpetrators of domestic violence.
A copy of the handbook will be provided with the training.
Outcomes
Participants will be provided with the knowledge, understanding and skills to enable them to:
- analyse the case history and individual incidents of abuse to aid safety planning and assessment
- build a working alliance with the abusive parent
- assess and work to increase motivation to change
- encourage disclosure
- focus on perpetrators’ accountability and avoid overloading the victim with responsibility
- use a range of educational and experiential materials to raise perpetrators’ awareness of the impacts of domestic abuse on children
- work with perpetrators as parents
- work with abuse of cultural privilege, race, nationality, religion and spirituality, extended family or community
- make appropriate onward referrals
Cost
– Two day course - £2400 - 2 trainers, up to 30 learners
- Three day course - £3600 - 2 trainers, up to 30 learners
The three day course provides extra time to cover the issue of assessing and reporting on risk where domestic violence is a child protection concern, more in-depth practice of techniques for dealing with denial, and for the analysis of specific incidents of abuse in the assessment and early intervention stages of the work.