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Domestic Violence: A System Perspective

Course Availability

Home Study

CE Broker #: 10-913217
CE Credits: 2.00

$30.00

Online Course

CE Broker #: 10-913218
CE Credits: 2.00

$20.00

NEW!!! Domestic violence is an epidemic affecting individuals in every community regardless of age, economic status, race, religion, nationality or educational background. This course seeks to address the system of care that interacts with those affected by domestic violence.  

Note: This is an approved 2CE course that meets the domestic violence content requirements for license renewal for Florida Licensed Psychologists, Licensed Social Workers, Licensed Mental Health Counselors, and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists. The content may meet requirements in other states as well please check our approvals page and your state board. Resources provided are for all fifty states.

IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST COURSE ON DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WE RECOMMEND YOU ORDER DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CORE COURSE OR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE THE BASICS 

Description:

Domestic violence is the willful intimidation, assault, battery, and/or other abusive behavior perpetrated by an intimate partner against another. It is an epidemic affecting individuals in every community regardless of age, economic status, race, religion, nationality or educational background. This course seeks to address the system of care that interacts with those affected by domestic violence. While learning essential core knowledge concerning domestic violence; including incidence and prevalence the learner will gain an insider's glimpse of the survivor's experience. Case examples will highlight complex myriad of issues, identify skills needed to address the problems and discuss attitudes and values that can impede or advance efforts to support survivors and respond to violence. Resources are throughout the study guide as well as made available through website references.

Objectives:

  1. Participants will be able to define terminology relevant to domestic violence

  2. Participants will be able to place core content, attitudes and skills in an overall framework for understanding and working with domestic violence.

  3. Participants will be able to describe survivor experiences and dilemmas.

  4. Participants will be able to implement an interdisciplinary approach to domestic violence in their practice.

Training Agenda:
Hour One:  Introduction, Terminology, Incidence and Prevalence Knowledge, Attitudes, Skills, Multidisciplinary Providers 

Hour Two:  Case Examples, Personal Violence History, Professional Abuse

CE Credits:  2

CE Broker #:  10-913217, 10-913218

Content Area: Social and Cultural Foundations, Treatment Knowledge, Helping Relationship, Domestic Violence, Addictions, Counseling Eevaluation and Assessment, Abuse and Trauma, Special Populations, Behavior Disorder.

Purpose: The purpose for a study such as this is to promote effective, non-defensive domestic violence intervention that is provided with competence and security for victims, and perpetrators, in interdisciplinary collaboration with other professionals who can demonstrate their own unique contributions without the negative effects of role blurring and competition for turf.

Methods: Pre Test, Study Guide, Posttest, Evaluation, Q&A via Email