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Joan Benz – Domestic Violence: Treatment Strategies to Stop the Cycle and Heal the Pain
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- Faculty:
- Joan Benz
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 5 Minutes
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Copyright:
- Jun 17, 2015
Description
Outline
Foundations of Domestic Violence (DV)
- Typology of the perpetrator
- Power and manipulation
- Control tactics used by perpetrator
- Substance abuse and domestic violence
- Psychological, emotional, sexual and financial abuse
Assessment & Techniques to Help DV Victims Share their Story
- Red flags to assess whether violence is occurring or is likely to occur
- Victim perspective vs. what society assumes
- 9 things not to say to victims
- Key concepts to know when working with victims
- Pressure by others feels like abuse
- Rational solutions vs. irrational situations
- Victim must give up the dream before they can leave
- Victim’s survival instinct to keep abuser happy
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- Motivational Interviewing
- Strength-based perspective
- Empowerment
- Rapport building techniques
- Strategies to help a victim leave a violent relationship
- Safety planning
Evidence-Based Treatment Interventions
- Assess for PTSD, anxiety, trauma and other mental health issues
- Trauma-focused CBT
- Narrative therapy
- Anxiety ladder
- Strategies to control unhealthy thoughts
- Guided Imagery
- Relaxation skills
- Mastery over thoughts
- Strategies for processing the guilt of leaving
- Poetry/song writing
- Transition from being a victim to a survivor
Treating Children Exposed to Domestic Violence
- Common effects: PTSD, anxiety, attachment, distrust, dissociative, behavior issues, anger, guilt
- Long-term effects from childhood that affect adult relationships
- Social learning theory and how it applies to DV
- Will girls become victims and boys perpetrators?
- Use TF-CBT with children to reduce PTSD
- Strategies to help process anger toward both the victim and abuser
- Case studies and real life examples from adults who witnessed DV as children
Prevention and Education
- Micro and macro approaches to stopping the violence
- Socialization theory
- Raising our children with less focus on gender roles
- Ask the right questions
Faculty
Joan Benz, PhD, MSW, LCSW Related seminars and products: 1
Joan Benz, PhD, MSW, LCSW, is a survivor of 22 years of domestic violence, and the mother of three sons who witnessed the violence. After escaping from her abusive husband, she spent several years in intensive therapy to recover from PTSD. Dr. Benz then went on to obtain an undergraduate degree in Social Work, Psychology and Sociology, an MSW from The Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis and a PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy from St. Louis University. Dr. Benz’s dissertation is on the “Life Experiences of Adults Who Witnessed Domestic Violence as Children.” She worked for over 10 years at a non-profit agency where she was a supervisor/ therapist working mainly with children and families that were victims of violence and/ or abuse. She has shared her personal story numerous times and used her experiences to advocate for other victims of domestic violence as a therapist, expert witness and consultant. Dr. Benz now works in private practice as a psychotherapist. Her specialties include domestic violence, couples therapy, OCD, PTSD, trauma and anxiety. Dr. Benz is also an adjunct professor in the MSW program at Washington University in St. Louis teaching Differential Diagnosis, Parent Child Interaction Therapy and Applied Behavior Therapy, and she provides several workshops each year on several topics including domestic violence, working with adolescents, clinical interventions and therapy techniques. She is president of the St. Louis Family Violence Council.
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