Parenting After Domestic Violence
Target Audience
This is a skills training course for anyone working with mothers or fathers whose children have been impacted by domestic violence. The course is aimed at social workers, family centre workers, parenting workers and family therapists who already have a grounding in working with families where domestic violence is a concern.
Course Outline
The course involves a mix of theoretical and experiential learning. Learning aims include:
Background
Interventions with mothers on
(a) Vulnerability to domestic violence - Safety Planning
(b) Parenting – with specific issues around the impacts of domestic violence on the child and the parent-child relationship
Domestic violence impacts on children
Domestic violence and family dynamics
Interventions with parents
Therapeutic parenting
Domestic violence and parental separation
Talking to children about domestic violence
Safety planning with children
Duration: 2 Days | Level: Advanced | Cost: Where an agency books a full course involving 2 facilitators and 16 learners: £2000
This is a skills training course for anyone working with mothers or fathers whose children have been impacted by domestic violence. The course is aimed at social workers, family centre workers, parenting workers and family therapists who already have a grounding in working with families where domestic violence is a concern.
Course Outline
The course involves a mix of theoretical and experiential learning. Learning aims include:
Background
- Links between Domestic violence and direct child abuse
- Domestic violence risk and vulnerability factors
- Factors which especially indicate risk to children from domestic violence
Interventions with mothers on
(a) Vulnerability to domestic violence - Safety Planning
(b) Parenting – with specific issues around the impacts of domestic violence on the child and the parent-child relationship
Domestic violence impacts on children
- Trauma effects on brain and cognitive development
- Attachment styles
- Trauma bonding
- Social learning
Domestic violence and family dynamics
- Understanding how domestic violence can affect family dynamics – both during and after the abusive relationship.Increasing children’s resilience
Interventions with parents
- The stuff of parenting programmes
- Work with the over-controlling parent
- Parenting control log
- Parenting from the inside out
Therapeutic parenting
- Helping parents understand and respond to children’s communications
- Parenting a traumatised child
- Understanding children’s communication
Domestic violence and parental separation
Talking to children about domestic violence
Safety planning with children
Duration: 2 Days | Level: Advanced | Cost: Where an agency books a full course involving 2 facilitators and 16 learners: £2000