This training address the following issues:

A focus on the types of mental health difficulties that typically present in crisis and strife. These include:

• A clear definition of domestic violence (and violence in general) with clear statistics;
• Raising delegates awareness and improving the identification of potential of Domestic Violence to assist interventions;
• The psychology and pathology of domestic violence in relation to perpetrators;
• A focus on the risk-factors;
• Examining the impact of Domestic Violence on children;
• A focus on the barriers to leaving abusive relationships;
• To provide a directory of potential intervention services to signpost service users towards appropriate support mechanisms;
• Advice on information sharing and advocacy protocols between agencies;
• A focus on raising the issues of Domestic Violence with women;
• A focus on key strategies for communicating with both children and adults in a sensitive manner in relation to Domestic Violence;
• A focus on working with both children and adults in developing safety plans;
• Neurobiology of violence and related Personality Disorders in relation to intimate partner violence in the domestic setting;
• The psychology of the intimate partner violence perpetrator;
• The psychology of the victim;
• Attachment disorders in childhood that later manifest in violent behaviour;
• Violent displacement and the callous assertion of power and control over dependents;
• The very latest research and new ideas in relation to intimate partner violence;
• A focus on the legal position and criminality;
• Body-language / Deception detection (the body-language and emotional leakage of fear and deceit, learning to identify individuals at risk and deception leakage from perpetrators);
• Basic counselling skills,