Engaging with perpetrators of domestic violence: Practical techniques for early intervention
Target audience
Social workers, child protection workers, health professionals 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. It is designed as a companion to Kate and Chris’s book - Engaging with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence: Practical Techniques for Early Intervention, published by Jessica Kingsley in January 2015. This handbook and training provides guidelines for initial interviews and risk assessment and then outlines techniques for:
· building a working alliance,
· encouraging disclosure,
· analysing incidents of abuse to aid safety planning and assessment
· raising awareness of the impacts on victims
· working with abuse of cultural privilege, race, nationality, religion and spirituality, extended family or community
· referring onwards
A copy of the handbook will be provided with the training.
Cost – Two day course - £2250 - 2 trainers, up to 18 learners (cost includes a copy of the handbook for each trainee)
- Three day course - £3250 - 2 trainers, up to18 learners (cost includes a copy of the handbook for each trainee)
The three day course provides extra time to cover the issue of assessing 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 intervention stages of the work.
Social workers, child protection workers, health professionals 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. It is designed as a companion to Kate and Chris’s book - Engaging with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence: Practical Techniques for Early Intervention, published by Jessica Kingsley in January 2015. This handbook and training provides guidelines for initial interviews and risk assessment and then outlines techniques for:
· building a working alliance,
· encouraging disclosure,
· analysing incidents of abuse to aid safety planning and assessment
· raising awareness of the impacts on victims
· working with abuse of cultural privilege, race, nationality, religion and spirituality, extended family or community
· referring onwards
A copy of the handbook will be provided with the training.
Cost – Two day course - £2250 - 2 trainers, up to 18 learners (cost includes a copy of the handbook for each trainee)
- Three day course - £3250 - 2 trainers, up to18 learners (cost includes a copy of the handbook for each trainee)
The three day course provides extra time to cover the issue of assessing 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 intervention stages of the work.