Training Courses
PACT offers a wide range of bespoke training courses on all aspects of domestic violence intervention work. If you would like training on any related subject not listed in this pamphlet, such as developing an intervention project, inter-agency working or evaluation, please contact us and we will let you know if we are able to.
PACT mainly uses co-trainers to deliver our courses. This allows us to use the kinds of drama and role play work that are so central to our client work as a training tool. Such techniques bring the work to life and leave participants more confident to apply the skills they learn in real world situations.
Understanding Domestic Violence
Target Audience
Front line workers who come across domestic violence in the course of their daily work e.g. health workers, substance abuse workers, counsellors, therapists and housing workers.
Course Content
Understandings of domestic violence - what is it, why do people use violence in intimate relationships and the effect of that violence on partners and children.
Recognition, assessment and response - spotting the signs of domestic violence, recognizing particular risk factors, broaching the subject, gathering and sharing information and responding to issues of domestic violence in the course of daily contact with clients.
Duration: 1 Day | Level: Basic | Cost: £1000 | 2 facilitators 20 learners
TopEngaging with victims | perpetrators
Target Audience
Front line workers in non-domestic violence agencies who nevertheless come across domestic violence in the course of their work. Examples are health workers, counsellors, therapists and housing workers.
Course Content
Understanding domestic violence - what is it, why do people use violence in intimate relationships and the effect of that violence on partners and children.
Recognition, assessment and response - spotting the signs of domestic violence, recognizing particular risk factors, broaching the subject, gathering and sharing information and responding to issues of domestic violence in the course of daily contact with clients.
Skills training - participants will learn and practice basic work with abusers, victims or both. Participants will learn practical skills for engaging their clients around the issue of domestic violence as well as some motivational work to encourage them to recognize the seriousness of their predicament, take action and/or seek more in-depth help.
Duration: 2 Days | Level: Advanced | Cost: £2000 | 2 facilitators 16 learners
TopDomestic violence perpetrator work
Target Audience
This is a skills training course for anyone wanting to work individually or with groups in a domestic abuse intervention project.
Course Content
Principles of the intervention model
- Understanding domestic violence
- Children and domestic violence
Working with linked partner services
- Intervention work - the model of linked services
- The work of linked partner services
- Safety planning and change monitoring
Individual work and assessment with perpetrators
- Challenging denial and minimisation
- Motivational work
- Risk factors
Group work
- Using violence logs
- Parenting and domestic violence
- Using drama, role play and re-enactments
- Covering sexual abuse in a DV group
- Techniques for developing empathy
- Practice group work
Duration: 5 Days | Level: Advanced | Cost: £5000 | for a course using 2 facilitators with 16 learners
TopLinked partner support services
Target Audience
This is a skills training course for anyone wanting to work individually or with groups in a linked partner support service as part of a domestic abuse intervention project.
Course Content
- Establishing aims and policies of the service, its relationship with the perpetrator services and with external systems such as the family courts.
- Proactive contact, outreach and helping clients to access your services.
- Assessing the needs and vulnerabilities of your client group.
- Setting up ongoing client work, workshop programs and support groups.
- Case working with the perpetrator program.
- Safety planning.
- Parenting work.
- Change monitoring.
- Anger management.
- Working with sexual abuse.
Duration: 3 Days | Level: Advanced | Cost: £3000 | for a course using 2 facilitators with 16 learners
TopWorking with children who have lived with domestic violence
Target Audience
Therapists, counsellors, children's guardians, family support and child protection workers.
Course Content
- Understanding the ways that domestic violence can affect children and their resulting needs.
- Risk factors and assessment of risk and needs.
- Parenting issues - working with parents after abuse.
- Techniques for working with children both individually and in groups - Safety planning, increasing children's insight and understanding of the abuse, increasing emotional literacy and resilience and anger management with children. These techniques incorporate art work, fantasy, role play and a range of visual exercises.
Duration: 2 Days | Level: Advanced | Cost: Where an agency books a full course involving 2 facilitators and 16 learners: £2000
TopParenting following domestic violence
Target Audience
Therapists, counsellors, children's guardians, family support and child protection workers.
Course Content
- Understanding the ways that domestic violence can affect the parent-child relationship.
- Standard parenting approaches.
- Working with abusive parents.
- Working with traumatised parents.
- Parenting traumatised children.
Duration: 2 Day | Level: Advanced | Cost: Where an agency books a full course involving 2 facilitators and 16 learners: £2000
TopWorking with Young People and Domestic Violence
Target Audience
Youth workers, Youth Offending Team workers, family support and child protection workers, school counsellors.
Course Content
- Understanding young people’s use of violence in relationships especially the use of violence by young men against girlfriends and mothers.
- Risk factors and assessment of risk and needs.
- Approaches for working individually with young people’s relationship violence using motivational work, cognitive behavioural techniques and invitational/ narrative therapy.
- Group work techniques for working with young people on these issues incorporating art work, drama, role play and a range of experiential exercises.
Duration: 2 Day | Level: Advanced | Cost: Where an agency books a full course involving 2 facilitators and 16 learners: £2000
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