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 alongside Children's services and the Family Courts
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
- Working with 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
Cost: £600 to individuals and voluntary agencies and £800 to statutory agencies | Where an agency books a full course involving 2 facilitators and 16 learners: £5000
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
Next running Thursday October 8th and Friday October 9th
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: £240 for individuals or voluntary agencies, £320 for statutory agencies | Where an agency books a full course involving 2 facilitators and 16 learners: £2000
TopParenting following domestic violence
Next running Thursday October 15th and Friday October 16th
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: £240 to individuals/voluntary agencies and £320 to statutory agencies| Where an agency books a full course involving 2 facilitators and 16 learners: £2000
Domestic Violence: Responses for psychotherapists
Target Audience
Therapists and counsellors who want to increase their understanding and skills in working with domestic violence
This is a skills training course for psychotherapists and counsellors whose clients bring issues around being abused by a partner or being abusive or violent themselves in intimate relationships. The trainers have studied humanistic, psychodynamic and systemic models but will not work from any particular one of these – instead they will offer a more targeted ‘tool box’ of techniques coming out of the domestic violence intervention field which are aimed at increasing safety. There will be time to consider how and what might be integrated into participants’ own practice.
Course Content
- Frameworks for understanding the dynamics and impacts of domestic violence
- Working with risk
- Understanding the law and other resources that might be of use to your client
- Safety planning
- Some case work supervision
- Motivating clients towards change
- Working with denial and minimisation
- Working with the transferential relationship
Training packs will be provided.
Duration: 3 Day | Level: Advanced | Cost: £360 to individuals/voluntary agencies and £480 to statutory agencies
TopSupervised Contact
Target Audience
Contact supervisors, social workers, family courts advisors.
Course Content
- Understanding the impact of domestic violence on parents, children and their inter-relationships.
- The rationale and purpose of child contact.
- Assessment and preparation for contact.
- Safety issues.
- The role of the supervisor.
- Structuring sessions - re-introductions, starting sessions, session middles, session endings.
- Moving contact on.
- Supporting parents and the parent-child relationship.
- Reporting.
Duration: 1 Day | Level: Advanced | Cost: £1000 | for a course involving 2 facilitators and 16 learners
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: £240 to individuals/voluntary agencies and £320 to statutory agencies| Where an agency books a full course involving 2 facilitators and 16 learners: £2000
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