Upcoming training
Please note: We have not yet fixed dates for our 2009 trainings. However, if you are interested in registering for one of the courses below, please download an application form and return it to us at pai.pact@googlemail.com, indicating which course you wish to register for.2009 course list
(Our usual training venue is: Roots and Shoots near Waterloo Station, London)
Domestic violence perpetrator work
Trainers
Kate Iwi & Dr Chris Newman
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
- Challenging denial and minimisation
- Motivational work
- Risk factors
- Parenting and domestic violence
- Using violence logs
- Using drama, role play and re-enactments
- Covering sexual abuse in a DV group
- Techniques for developing empathy
Cost
£600 to individuals/voluntary agencies and £800 to statutory agencies
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- Helping parents understand the impacts of domestic violence on children
- Parenting from the inside out – working with parents’ experiences of being parented
- Parenting and child developmental stages
- Standard parenting programmes
- Working with the over-controlling parent
- Therapeutically parenting the traumatised child
- Making amends, repairing relationships
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- 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
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- 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.
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Parenting following domestic violence
Trainers
Kate Iwi & Dr Chris Newman
Target Audience
This is a skills training course for anyone working with mothers or fathers whose children have been impacted by domestic violence. We will not focus on decreasing the adult victim’s vulnerability to further abuse, nor on decreasing the risk posed by the perpetrator (see the course running from 27th - 31st October if that’s your interest). We will focus solely on improving parenting in families where there has been 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 Content
Cost
£240 to individuals and voluntary agencies and £320 to statutory agencies
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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 m be integrated into participants’ own practice.
Course Content
Training packs will be provided.
Cost
£360 to individuals/voluntary agencies and £480 to statutory agencies
Working with children who have lived with domestic violence
Target Audience
Therapists, counsellors, children's guardians, family support and child protection workers.
Course Content
Duration: 2 Days | Level: Advanced | Cost: £240 for individuals or voluntary agencies, £320 for statutory agencies
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Working 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
Contact
Email: pai.pact@googlemail.com
Phone: 0771 432 9550
