Date/Time
Date(s) - 29 Nov 2017
10:00 am - 4:30 pm
Price range
£0.00
Location The Pavillion Hatherley Lane Cheltenham GL51 6PN United Kingdom
Categories
Course description
An interactive, practical day on Adolescent to Parent Violence (APV), designed to raise awareness of the topic and provide participants with an opportunity to explore the dynamics of the issue as a profile of domestic abuse. Information will be provided on definitions, background theories, prevalence, risk factors, case studies and behaviour patterns. Consideration will be given of the problems of engaging with families around this issue and an overview of current service provision (models of work) will be provided.
The day aims to increase knowledge of this issue and ways to respond, although it is not a training to deliver a specific intervention model, some useful activities for both parents and young people will be provided.
This course is being run in partnership with GDASS (Gloucestershire Domestic Abuse Support Service).
Learning Objectives
- To gain an understanding of the dynamics and contexts of APV
- To explore patterns of abusive behaviour and family case studies
- To gain an overview of background theory, sector statistics and risk factors
- To learn about the barriers and approaches to engage with young people and parents in relation to this issue
- To increase knowledge about current service provision and developing practice
Who should attend
This 1 day course is suitable for all those who currently work with young people or families and wish to further their knowledge in relation to APV. It is suitable for both frontline practitioners and service managers including domestic abuse specialists, youth offending teams, social care & children’s services, youth workers, parenting workers, educationalists etc. Some prior knowledge in relation to understanding of domestic abuse would be beneficial.
**Special Offer** We have discounted our usual rates for this course and can give a further 10% discount for group bookings of 3 or more (the discount will be applied when we invoice you).
Bookings
Bookings are closed for this event.
