This half-day course explores the impact of vicarious trauma on professionals and volunteers who work with people who have been exposed to trauma.  Vicarious trauma is inherent for professionals who are working with people who are stressed and in trauma.   Working with trauma means that workers regularly hear distressing stories, and face the realities of violence and abuse, and other traumatic events in the lives of the people they work with. This second-hand exposure to suffering and violence places workers at high risk of experiencing some form of secondary traumatic stress response.

This is a 1-day programme that aims to enable participants to develop a greater awareness of sexual violence, thereby improving/enhancing practice responses to victims. 

This half-day course explores the impact of vicarious trauma on professionals and volunteers who work with people who have been exposed to trauma.  Vicarious trauma is inherent for professionals who are working with people who are stressed and in trauma.   Working with trauma means that workers regularly hear distressing stories, and face the realities of violence and abuse, and other traumatic events in the lives of the people they work with. This second-hand exposure to suffering and violence places workers at high risk of experiencing some form of secondary traumatic stress response.

This 1-day course will explore the differing dynamics between male and female victims and will enable participants to develop knowledge and practical skills to help them work with male victims of domestic violence.   

This is a 1-day programme that aims to enable participants to develop a greater awareness of strangulation, thereby improving/enhancing practice responses to its victims. 

This is a 3-day programme (you must be available to attend all 3 days of this programme) that aims to enable participants to develop a greater awareness of domestic violence against women, thereby improving/enhancing practice responses to women and children.  The training will:

1. Enable participants to define violence against women and demonstrate how this links to domestic violence;
2. Enable participants to explore messages from research, and legislation, with particular attention to prevalence, incidence, impact and consequences, and best practice approaches for women and their children;
3. Enable participants to have awareness of perpetrator causation factors, dispel myths and stereotypes, and explore how these have impacted upon current methods of agencies intervention and decision making of both women and agency workers;
4. Enable participants to understand perpetrator behaviour and how this impacts on women and children.
5. Enable participants to determine who is the primary aggressor within a relationship.
6. Enable participants to appreciate why women may leave, return or stay in violent relationships;
7. Enable participants to identify the range of needs of women and their children, from a women centred/service individual user needs, risk and safeguarding perspective.
8. Enable participants to explore issues of diversity as additional factors in relation to needs, interventions and decision making;
9. Enable participants to determine the importance of safety planning, risk assessment and bring together safeguarding processes and the MARAC process in service planning and delivery;
10. Enable participants to identify how best all of these needs/risks can be met by a co-ordinated community response, and consider their local community services in this context.

Participants will be expected to attend all 3 days. Course dates available for 2011-2012 are:

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