Impact of Abuse on Teenagers

What You Will Learn from This Course

This course creates an opportunity to examine what messages teenagers are getting about relationships and the different ways they can be affected by domestic abuse. Increase knowledge of perpetrators methods and victim/survivors responses, raise awareness of tech facilitated abuse and how to increase safety when using technology and social media.

You will explore healthy and unhealthy coping strategies teenagers adopt and identify the barriers to speaking out or seeking support.

How The Course Works

1 DAY COURSE

For professionals working with teenagers

  • Identify ways in which teenagers are affected by domestic abuse
  • The messages teenagers get about relationships
  • Attitudes and beliefs teenagers have towards abuse in relationships
  • Teenagers in intimate partner abuse; what it is, how and why it works
  • Tech-facilitated abuse and safety measures
  • Perpetrator personality traits and Early Warning Signs
  • Barriers to speaking up and seeking support
  • Who and where teenagers can go to get effective and appropriate support locally andnationally

2 DAY COURSE

For professionals working with teenagers or managers of services for teenagers

  • Identify ways in which teenagers are affected by domestic abuse
  • The messages teenagers get about relationships
  • Attitudes and beliefs teenagers have towards abuse in relationships
  • Teenagers in Intimate partner abuse; what it is and why it works
  • Tech-facilitated abuse and safety measures
  • The impact and effects on teenagers in the short & long term
  • Healthy and unhealthy coping strategies teenagers adopt
  • The barriers to speaking up and seeking support
  • Who and where teenagers can go to get effective and appropriate support locally andnationally
  • Case studies

Client Experiences

I have worked in the sector for a very long time, and I can honestly say that this is the best Domestic Abuse training that I have ever attended.

RASA Merseyside

Team Member
Malka’s knowledge and experience in domestic abuse is second to none and this is what makes her training one of the best I have ever had the pleasure of participating in.

The First Step (IDVA Manager)

Team Member
As an abuse survivor myself, I was apprehensive and nervous about attending a course that could trigger my own feelings, but I wanted to be able to help others in my workplace.

Office for Nuclear Regulation

Team Member
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