domestic violence

Domestic Violence

A Systemic Therapy Approach to Risk, Responsibility and Collaboration

Recorded Friday 2 October 2020

Led by Dr Arlene Vetere

CPD Credits: 4 hours

This webinar will outline the systemic safety methodology for safe relationship therapy when physical and emotional violence is known to have occurred. It is in response to the increase of violence in the home during the lockdown period, and the challenges of working remotely with these clients. It will assist practitioners to assess when it’s safe enough to work relationally, and when to offer alternatives.

The systemic safety methodology has emotional, physical and relational safety as the highest priority. It works within a working triangle of the connections between the risks of further violent behaviour, helping people to take responsibility, and collaborative practice.

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SPEAKERS

Dr Arlene Vetere,

FULL PROGRAMME

The Risk of Future Violence: Managing and Assessing the Risk
The webinar will open with some contextual starting points for therapeutic work with intimate relationships, couples and families. Arlene will then explore the management of risk of future violence and its ongoing assessment. Risk is managed through the use of the “stable third” person and slow, careful safety planning, tailored to the particular circumstances of the family/couple relationship. Safety planning identifies internal and external triggers for dangerous physiological arousal, and resources. These might include times when a difficult interaction did not become a dangerous one, and safety strategies to predict and prevent violence. The talk will conclude with the systemic assessment of risk and the adaptations needed to the safety methodology when working online.

Q&A

Responsibility and the Relationship with Explanation (Part 1)
Arlene will develop ideas on how therapists can help couples and families take responsibility for safety and to be accountable for their actions that harm others. In this way of working, responsibility is seen as the ability to respond, to listen, to stand in the shoes of the other, and to take appropriate action. We shall pay attention to how family members talk about their violent behaviour, minimising the passive voice versus the language of agency.

Q&A

Responsibility and the Relationship with Explanation (Part 2)

Collaborative Practice, and Contra-Indications for Relational Therapy
Finally, we shall look at how it is possible to work collaboratively and transparently when family members might be required to work with us through the child protection process. We shall outline a contextual and systemic way of writing reports on behalf of children who live with fear and violence at home. The webinar will close with the contra-indications for safe relationship therapy when violence is known to have occurred.

Discussion

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FEES

Includes: 1 year’s access, test and CPD Certificate of Attendance, subtitles and transcript

INDIVIDUAL

£60 (or £48 Confer member)

GROUP RATE

£50pp in groups of over 10 (please apply to accounts@confer.uk.com)

CPD

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits for 4 hours are available as part of the course fee. You will need to fill out an evaluation form and pass a multiple choice questionnaire related to the content in order to receive your certificate. You can submit this test up to a maximum of 5 times.

SCHEDULE

00:01:42
The Risk of Future Violence: Managing and Assessing the Risk

00:53:28
Q&A

01:10:49
Responsibility and the Relationship with Explanation (Part I)

01:52:44
Q&A

02:15:41
Responsibility and the Relationship with Explanation (Part 2)

02:39:10
Collaborative Practice, and Contra-Indications for Relational Therapy

03:36:52
Discussion

04:07:24
End

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

By attending this workshop virtually, participants will be able to:
  • Discuss the relationship between unregulated arousal and violence
  • Utilise systemic ideas when working with domestic violence
  • Describe the systemic safety methodology