CBT for Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence (ONLINE)

The materials covered are applicable to a range of professionals such as psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, counsellors, psychiatric nurses, graduate students, case managers, probation/parole officers and other professionals working with clients in private practice, outpatient mental health centres, hospitals, day reporting centres, halfway and transitional housing programs, prisons and probation/parole systems.

Across different treatment settings, practitioners routinely see clients who harm others. Such cases pose a range of challenges that are quite different from addressing the traditional mental health needs of those suffering from mainly internalizing problems such as anxiety and depression.

Join CBT Australia and award-winning author, Raymond Chip Tafrate, Ph.D., for fast paced, interactive, virtual learning sessions that will provide you with the foundational knowledge and tools to better understand, manage and prevent harmful behaviours. These intensive workshops in the Challenging Cases Series, cover a range of challenging clinical topics such as domestic and intimate partner violence, managing dysregulated anger, and addressing antisocial and criminal conduct.

The most efficient way to develop new skills is through practice - learning by doing. Therefore, all these online workshops in this series are highly interactive, incorporating structured learning activities including case examples, audio/video-recorded work samples, small group exercises and “real”-plays. Class sizes are limited to allow for practice opportunities in a virtual learning environment. The goal is for you to be able to transfer and incorporate newly learnt knowledge and skills into your real-world interactions.

Successful intervention for domestic and intimate partner violence cases requires a focus on a set of risk domains and thinking patterns that facilitate aggressive, coercive, and abusive behaviour (beyond mental health symptoms and traditional irrational beliefs). In this session, common abuse patterns and perpetrator subtypes will be reviewed, as well as step-by-step guidelines for identifying relevant risk factors and treatment targets.

Interventions are then tailored to the particular person and situational context in which violence and abuse occur. This workshop provides an efficient way to update your knowledge and skills in this challenging area.

(1) Understand the range of violent, abusive, and coercive behaviours committed by domestic and intimate violence perpetrators

(2) Learn to focus interventions on critical risk domains and thinking patterns influencing violent and abusive episodes

(3) Analyze and apply case formulation skills to a real domestic and intimate violence case

One day workshop

Course schedule: 9am – 2pm (times are AEST Melbourne VIC)

Pre-Reading for: CBT for Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence is included in the cost of the course.

A collection of books are available through the CBT Australia online shop

Registrations: Registrations submitted less than 10 days prior to commencement of a course are not secured until confirmed with the office by phone or email. Your place is NOT confirmed until payment has been received in full and receipted. If you do not receive a registration confirmation within 7 days of submitting your booking, please phone +61 (0)3 9705 2216.

Cancellation Policy: Notice of cancellation must be received in writing to CBT Australia (e: events@cbtaustralia.com.au)

• within 5 days of event - no credit or refund

• within 6-10 days of event - 50% credit, no refunds

• over 10 days before event - full credit or refund

• credits are valid within 12 months of initial registration

• onus on participant to contact CBT Australia to rebook within 12 months

• registration transferable to another person upon application

• withdraw from course after commencement - no certificate, credit, or refund

Please contact our office for more information here.