WORKSHOPS
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Training Courses
~ Confidently recognise and respond to the hidden harm caused by domestic abuse
~ Understand why victims struggle to safeguard their children
~ Have access to trauma informed parent and child risk assessments/tools
~ Recognise and respond to the signs of Coercive Control
~ Understand why the correct use of language is crucial when engaging with victims and perpetrators of domestic abuse.
~ Work more confidently with perpetrators
~ Recognise the difference between Vicarious Trauma and Burn Out
~ Understand how unconscious bias is a barrier to working with parents
~ Get the child’s true voice
~ Feel empowered to work with challenging parents
~ Recognising the difference between Coercive Control, Situational Violence and Destructive Parental Conflict
~ Identifying and responding to the signs of Parental Alienation
~ Exploring how unconscious bias can be a barrier to achieving positive outcomes
~ Approaching the conflict through a Trauma Lens
~ Engaging more confidently with “challenging parents”
~ Incorporating Social Graces into their work to build rapport with parents and children
~ Confidently capturing the child’s voice by identifying their role and experience within the conflict
~ Providing de-escalation strategies to improve constructive communication between parents
~ Identify potential triggers for Post Separation Abuse
~ Identify and respond to the alienating behaviour
~ Protect the child from the influence of the alienating parent
~ Empower parents to resolve the conflict without involving the child
~ Educate parents about the long-term harm caused by alienation
~ Create a timeline with the child prior to the separation
~ Gain the child’s true wishes and feelings
~ Prevent cases escalating to Public Law Outline
~ Reduce referrals to Child Adolescent Mental Health Teams (CAMHS)
The true impact of harm caused by parents with the disorder is hidden as children may be too fearful to speak out. By offering alternative methods of engaging with these parents and by understanding the underlying behaviours, practitioners, will be able to confidently build trust with parents and gain the true voice of the child by:
~ Paying attention to inconsistencies
~ Learning strategies to build rapport and increase ~ engagement
~ Recognising and responding to the non-verbal reactions
~ Understanding the parents may have unresolved historical trauma
~ Gaining the true voice of the children
~ Identifying the specific role of the child
~ Identifying their role in the Karpman Drama Triangle
~ Help parents understand how domestic abuse affects them as a parent
~ Support parents to recognise the impact of domestic abuse on their child
~ Show parents how the domestic abuse is affecting the targeted parent
~ Educate parents to recognise the signs of Child Trauma.
~ Support parents to communicate effectively with their child
~ Empower parents to increase empathic responses to their child
~ Teach parents protective behaviours to keep their child safe
~ Improve participation between the client and the practitioner
~ Assist both the parent and the practitioner to identify the patterns of behaviour and address the underlying issues
~ To assess the current support networks, the influences on personal development and interpersonal relationships which need improvement.
~ To consider the impact of parenting styles and Social
~ Graces when exploring family functioning
~ Support families to overcome resistance when they can identify the connections between historical family members.
~ Increase opportunities to use professional curiosity and probing skills
~ To assess if the child has adequate support from extended family and to identify positive relationships
~ To identify family members who may be a risk to the child.
~ To support the family, identify current behaviour’s which act as triggers or support active use.