Dealing with Stormy Relationships: Family Violence Revisited 

Description: 

This course explores the development of the literature on family violence.  Beginning with cursory discussion on anger the study moves into a primer on attachment theory and its connection to how individuals have violent responses to anxiety and frustration and yet others may be vulnerable to victimization.  A concerted effort has been made to provide a variety of assessment and treatment tools throughout the study which clinicians should prove useful to practitioners.  What we are learning about intimate partner violence precedes the discussion on batterers and victims.  Batterer typologies are presented and discussed.  Victims are described including a discussion about the connection between attachment experiences and victimization.  A discussion of family violence would be remiss without discussing the effects on subpopulations and here we discuss children, elders, and same sex couples. This study presents the emerging controversies in this area of study; to present both sides and invite the learner to consider the arguments.

Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to discuss types of anger, psychobiological manifestations, and intervention tips.

2. Participants will be able to discuss the relationship of attachment style to violence.

3. Participants will be able to describe interventions specific to resolving attachment disturbances.  

4. Participants will be able to describe gender related differences in the expression of emotions.

5. Participants will be able to describe incidence and prevalence of intimate partner violence.

6. Participants will be able to articulate profile information for batterers and victims.

7. Participants will be able to discriminate conflicting science in a context that serves clients.  

CE Credits:  6

CE Broker#: 10-1170922 

Agenda

Hour One: Anger

Hour Two: Attachment theory primer

Hour Three: Intimate Partner Violence

Hour Four: Batterers

Hour Five: Victims

Hour Six: Other populations

Purpose: To equip the practitioner with an evidence-based understanding of the issues that underlies violence in relationships.