ZEngaging Perpetrators of Domestic Violence
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All staff within LBS Adults and Children's Social Care services
Course Overview
A one day introductory level course for practitioners in frontline services looking to gain a theoretical grounding in intimate partner violence as well as engage with reflective and experiential learning, practice and demonstration role plays.
Learning Outcomes
The core principles of perpetrator intervention work:
- Understanding domestic violence
- Ethical and safe intervention with perpetrators of domestic violence
- Placing the experience of victims at the centre of the work
- A perpetrator programme in the context of a co-ordinated community response
- Understanding of the different dynamics of male and female perpetration
Individual work and assessment with perpetrators:
- Understanding denial and minimisation
- Risk identification and safety planning
Group work :
- Increasing disclosure, naming the violence
- A functional analysis of violence
- Accountability & talking to children responsibly about violence
- Using drama, role play and re-enactments
- Techniques for developing empathy
- Compassion with-out collusion – working with the men’s own abuse
- A reparative group process – re-positioning shame
- Practice group work
- Increased understanding of coercive control and its intents