Intimate Violence Prevention for Dads (4 CE)

Course Level: Intermediate

This course is for:  Social Workers, Psychologists, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, and Addiction Counselors

Course by Helen Hinton, LPCC

Content By: Karberg, Elizabeth, Jenita Parekh, Mindy E. Scott, Juan Carlos Areán, Lisa Kim, Jessie Laurore, Samuel Hanft, Ilana Huz, Heather Wasik, Lonna Davis, Bonnie Solomon, Brooke Whitfield, and Megan Bair-Merritt (2020). Preventing and Addressing Intimate Violence when Engaging Dads (PAIVED): Challenges, Successes, and Promising Practices from Responsible Fatherhood Programs, OPRE Report # 2020-22, Washington, DC: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Course Description: Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) is defined as physical violence, sexual violence, stalking, or psychological harm that is inflicted by a current or former intimate partner. IPV is widespread and carries long-lasting adverse effects for survivors and children, particularly those from vulnerable populations. Responsible Fathers (RF) programs address the significant need to prevent IPV concomitant with appropriate ways to intervene when IPV occurs. Preventing and Addressing Intimate Violence when Engaging Dads (PAIVED) was developed for the purpose of understanding the ways that RF programs deliver IPV services. An examination of the purpose, methodology, objectives, and key findings contained in the PAIVED report are considered. RF approaches relative to IPV screening, staff training, partnerships, curricula, and other programmatic procedures are discussed. Additional consideration of the challenges and successes associated with IPV service delivery, areas for growth, and promising practices will also be explored.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define IPV and identify associated behavioral characteristics
2. Describe the role trauma plays in the lives of fathers who inflict violence
3. Describe the purpose, methodology, objectives, and key findings revealed in the PAIVED report
4. Understand the challenges and successes associated with IPV identification and prevention
5. Identify promising practices relative to IPV recognition and prevention
6. Identify the RF program curriculum, number of sessions, outcome data, and IPV content for each program that was reviewed by the respective researchers

Course outline

• Introduction to IPV and to the background of the PAIVED research study
• Summary of the research purpose, methods, objectives, and key findings
• Key findings for objective 1: Understand current approaches to preventing and addressing IPV/DV
• Key findings for objective 2: Assess challenges and successes in addressing and helping to prevent IPV/DV
• Key findings for objective 3: Identify promising practices in addressing and preventing IPV/DV
• Fatherhood and IPV/DV curricula reviewed by the PAIVED research team

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