UNDERSTANDING COERCIVE CONTROL

For Who

For primary responders and services working with families, learn how to recognise and identify coercive control.

When

October

9:30am-4:30pm

Prior Knowledge

none

Duration

6.5 hours

Learning Outcomes

Explore definitional concepts connected to coercive control
Understand the range, type, and nature of the behaviours/tactics someone uses to control and entrap adult and children victim-survivors
Understand how a person’s use of coercive controlling behaviour impacts on victim-survivor safety, dignity and responses
Understand how inequality, imbalances of power, and other situational factors intersect to shape the perpetration of coercive control and responses to this
Understand the link between the perpetration of coercive control and intimate partner homicide
Identify key factors that contribute to a helpful response for victim-survivors of coercive control
Understand why a pattern-based lens is important to identifying coercive control and the correct identification of the person most in need of protection
Identify key features of pattern-based risk assessment to identify coercive control
Understand how to ask questions that support pattern-based assessments

As a primary responder to domestic and family violence, or someone who otherwise works directly with families, you will almost certainly encounter situations where a person is subjecting their partner or former partner to coercive control. Coercive control might be more difficult to recognise than physical violence, but it can be just as dangerous for those subjected to it.
This course will develop your understanding of what coercive control is, what behaviours it can involve, why it is so harmful to victims, and what the key elements in providing a helpful response to people subjected to coercive control.