Addiction and Domestic Violence

 

Description: 

This study provides information relevant to the treatment and case management of domestic violence victims and perpetrators who are involved with substance abuse.  The intersection of these two fields complicates intervention services for both problems.  The study discusses the complexities including false assumptions, variant terminology, victim specific information such as causes for substance misuse, and barriers to successful completion of treatment.  Participants will learn how to implement a safety plan and learn conflicts that emerge for women victims in substance abuse treatment and in 12-step recovery.  A more intensive look at Lenore Walker’s cycle of violence opens the perpetrator segment of the offering, which also includes, explanations of abuse, signs of change and well as sign a perpetrator is not changing.  A matrix for organizing risk factors is discussed and information pertinent to relevant federal laws is covered.  Recommended guidelines for intervention services for substance involved domestic violence victims and perpetrators conclude the program.  Finally the second section is the Wingspread conference report containing a candid discussion of the difficulties in the system that works with the domestic violence population.  The report offers the best thinking for understanding the complexity of the populations involved, concerns for assessment and triage, and intervention.

Objectives:

1.  Participants will be able to list and discuss four false assumptions concerning domestic violence and substance abuse.

2.  Participants will be able to compare and contrast terminology variances across chemical dependency, battered women, and batterers.

3.  Participants will be able to identify two causes of substance misuse 

4.  Participants will be able to list five barriers specific to substance abusing partners.

5.  Participants will be able to implement a safety plan for victims of domestic violence.

6.  Participants will be able to discuss four conflicts between 12-step programs and recovery for victims.

7.  Participants will be able to describe the Self-in-Relation Model

8.  Participants will be able to list and describe the three stages of Lenore Walker’s Cycle of Violence.

9.  Participants will be able to identify six perspectives to explain woman abuse.

10.  Participants will be able to identify signs that a batterer is and is not changing.

11.  Participants will be able to discuss Reiss and Roth’s matrix for organizing risk factors for violent behavior.

12.  Participants will be able to identify three federal laws that affect domestic violence situations.  

13.  Participants will be able to discuss guidelines for substance abuse and domestic violence intervention efforts re: victim safety and self-determination, abuser accountability and systems responsibility

14.  Participants will be able to discuss the conceptual and practical tensions hampering effective work with families affected by domestic violence

15.  Participants will be able to list five central sets of issues impacting the justice system and the provider community.

16.  Participants will be able to identify five different violence patterns

17.  Participants will be able to discuss the complexities regarding appropriate outcomes for children.

CE Credits:  6

Training Agenda:  

Hour One: Introduction:   Four False assumptions, Compare and contrast terminology

Hour Two: Two causes of substance misuse

Five barriers specific to victims of substance abusing partners

Hour Three: Safety plan for victims, Four conflicts between 12-step programs and recovery for victims

Hour Four: Self-in-Relation Model

Three stages of Lenore Walker’s Cycle of Violence, Six perspectives to explain the abuse of women

Hour Five:  Is he changing or is he not?

Matrix for organizing risk factors,  It’s the Law

Hour Six:  Guidelines for substance abuse and domestic violence, The 

Wingspread Conference Report