Creating Safety & Good Moments

Description

Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) has been a focus in recent years in Sweden. With an increasing number of couples affected by Intimate Partner Violence, it was necessary to develop skills and methods in counselling this particular group.

IPV is a huge personal and social problem not only for affected couples and families but also having a tremendous effect creating intense debates among professionals. The dominant narrative in Sweden can very briefly be described as influenced by the Duluth Model. The Johnson Model of Coercive Controlling Violence and Situational Violence is not accepted by many but has proven useful in our work with IPV couples.

Participants can also explore the useful therapeutic questions and interventions for creating safety and good moments with detailed examples from sessions.

This workshop aims to open up discussions and allow participants to create several alternative ways of working with IPV couples.

This workshop will present the Possibility Assessment Model, inspired by Michael Johnson, a model for combining risk and possibility assessment. There are also a number of theories and models for working with Intimate Partner Violence - inspired by Segal, Stith, Hamel, Wade, Gottman and van Lawicks.