Santa Clara University

Continuing Education Classes - Beyond Domestic Violence 101


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Day May 31, 2008
Time 9am-1pm or 9am-5pm
Room Arts and Sciences, Wiegand Room
Credit 0.4 CEUs, 4 CE Hours or 0.7 CEUs, 7 CE Hours
Cost $95.00 or $165.00

Description

You know what domestic violence is; here you will learn the “rest of the story.” Working with domestic violence presents very complex and often challenging issues for mental health professionals. In the early days domestic violence was thought best left to law enforcement, advocates, batterers’ intervention and trauma specialists. Today both the need and the awareness have expanded and mental health professionals are faced with integrating domestic violence work into mental health treatment plans. Our theories have not yet effectively integrated the very unique needs introduced by family contexts of intimate partner violence. And advocate-driven victim-villain dichotomies seldom help mental health professionals sort through the complexity of needs presented by these clients.

This workshop is designed to go beyond the basic knowledge of intimate partner violence (IPV) to deconstruct the issue of IPV into its mental health parts. By exploring the mental health issues embedded in IPV, the practitioner will feel more confident that they are both staying mindful of the domestic violence while addressing relevant mental health issues. Participants will explore differing types of abuse and emerging typologies including a look at women’s violence and how to integrate this knowledge into effective treatment planning. Practitioners will also learn to reach beyond the treatment room to understand the systems impacting these clients and their mental health needs.

Participants will learn:

  • About a continuum of abuse and how this relates to emerging typologies of violence
  • Similarities and unique aspects of women’s violence
  • Recognizing psychological dominance
  • How to assess for danger, risk or lethality
  • How to assess for relevant mental health issues in the context of domestic violence and how to treat without losing context of DV
  • How to apply clinical understanding of attachment and trauma in cases of intimate partner violence
  • Explore potential pitfalls for mental health professional working with IPV
  • Systems impacting clients



Instructor


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Marueen Lowell, M.A.

Maureen Lowell, MA, is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in private practice in San Jose, CA since 1997.  Ms. Lowell brings over 20 years of experience in the field of family violence to this workshop as a clinician, lecturer and consultant.  Her clinical work has included: county social worker, residential treatment program therapist and caseworker as well as group facilitator for male batterer’s programs, women’s violence programs and Parenting without Violence.   Ms. Lowell developed and wrote the original “Parenting without Violence” curriculum introduced in Santa Clara County in 1994 for working with parents toward non-violent and empowered styles of parenting.  She also developed a curriculum for working with women who had been arrested for domestic violence based on the same model.  In addition to clinical services, Ms. Lowell has developed and implemented many training programs on domestic violence awareness and intervention including county department trainings, local conferences, agency trainings and has taught at San Jose State as a lecturer for the upper-division GE course “Hate and Violence in the Family and Community.” 
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