Domestic and family violence is a major social health and human rights issue in Australia and one of the leading causes for DCJ intervention in families’ lives. This workshop will introduce participants to a conversational style that invites fathers to take responsibility for their behavior so that caseworkers can successfully refer them to agencies for ongoing work.
This conversational style is based on safety principles that are designed to engage fathers to increase their protective capacity. This workshop promotes confidence and skills in turning difficult interactions into opportunities for engagement. This workshop will enable you to:
As a result of attending this workshop, participants should be able to:
- Demonstrate an ability to critically reflect on their practice.
- Articulate some of the major dominant discourses in the field of DV and how this affects practice.
- Outline the key elements and aims of engaging men who use violence in the home.
- Identify and explain the need for safety frameworks for women and children in the process of engaging men.
- Articulate the key elements of the target model in working with men who use violence in the home.
- Identify the key elements of a safety framework in the process of engaging men who use violence in the home.
- Identify key elements that practitioners need to consider promoting safety for women and children where violence is used in the home
- Identify key elements of respectful engagement of men that will promote safety for women and children where violence is used in the home.
- Articulate the elements of a conversational pathway that encourage respectful engagement of men to enable them to take responsibility for their violence and promote safety.
- Articulate the elements of a conversational styles that encourage respectful engagement of men to enable them to take responsibility for their violence and promote safety.