The workshop focuses on survivor stages of change, interventions, frequent survivor issues, and the concept of abuse-instilled fear that complicates recovery.
| Next Session | March 10, 2025 – March 28, 2025 |
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Help your clients heal
According to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 1 in 4 women and nearly 1 in 10 men have experienced intimate partner violence (sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking) by an intimate partner during their lifetime. More than 43 million women and 38 million men experience psychological aggression by an intimate partner in their lifetime.
Coercive relationships are characterized by behaviors such as manipulation, control, intimidation, and abuse. These behaviors can significantly affect a person's mental and emotional well-being, potentially leading to long-term trauma and psychological harm.
By gaining in-depth knowledge of the dynamics of coercive relationships, you will be able to provide effective and evidence-based treatments to help your clients heal from the trauma they have experienced. This education will allow you to better understand and identify the signs of abuse and manipulation, and provide appropriate interventions to help your clients break free from these patterns.
As a new addition to the live online sessions, instructor, Jennifer Parker and Ronna Trapanese will perform educational, interactive role-plays; some roleplays will be paused to allow participants to suggest therapeutic responses.
Program objectives:
- Increase knowledge about what is helpful to intimate partner abuse survivors.
- Identify common issues and how they affect survivor behavior.
- Discover therapeutic strategies to empower survivors.
Who should attend
Human service and mental health professionals such as social workers, therapists, professional counselors, psychologists, and nurses.
Instructors
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Jennifer Parker is a licensed clinical social worker in the state of Wisconsin and is accredited as a clinician through the National Association of Social Workers. She provided psychotherapy for 36 years until December 2021 for both trauma victims and general mental health issues. Jennifer's internship at a battered women’s shelter began her passion to develop resources for victims. In order to reach more survivors, she published "Coercive Relationships: Find the Answers You Seek" in 2021. This book includes knowledge from her training and research, as well as insights gained from working alongside survivors on their healing journeys. Jennifer's accomplishments include a curriculum for intimate partner abuse group work, workshops, professional newsletter articles, expert witness testimony, a website blog, and awards from state and local agencies. Since retiring from clinical practice, Jennifer devotes her energies to three things; reaching survivors through social media, podcasts, and presentations, publishing a blog that focuses on topics of interest to survivors, professionals, or family and friends concerned about someone they think is being abused, providing specialized training in effective therapy for intimate partner abuse victims.
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Ronna Trapanese is a creator, artist, actor, and survivor presenter. Her passion is to empower therapists and medical professionals by acting out realistic scenarios. She loves seeing the light bulbs go off in providers. Ronna's experience includes adaptive acting and interactive role-playing for testing, instruction, and education with medical students, physician assistants, nurses, veterinarians, and pharmacists. She does independent contracting for IPV training with UW Medical School, and training for transplant nurses to develop communication strategies for families in trauma. In addition, Ronna is an independent contractor-actor for UW Medical Department, providing palliative training for doctors across the country and promoting empathic strategies when dealing with palliative care patients. In the past, she worked as an independent contractor-actor-trainer for the Department of Children's Services-Southern Child Welfare Partnership. She has also done training at Columbia Correctional Institution along with a psychiatrist for corrections officers to facilitate their work with difficult inmates.