Experiences of abuse can have a lasting impact on a person’s self-confidence and self-esteem, ability to make decisions, and trust in others, as well as generating symptoms of depression, high anxiety, complex trauma, and thoughts of suicide. This can severely impact on a person’s ability to seek support. This course will explore the main psychological theories of domestic abuse, how abuse happens, why and how this affects an individual’s mental health, and what can be done to positively support the person’s mental health recovery.
Detailed Description
Course facilitator bio: The course will be led by Dr Jeannette Roddy. Jeannette is an experienced counsellor/psychotherapist, supervisor and trainer who has spent over 15 years working in domestic abuse counselling as a practitioner, supervisor, and researcher. She developed the Domestic Abuse Counselling model (DAC) as part of her PhD at York St John, before developing this training programme which is based on the DAC model. The training model has been tested at the University of Salford, where over 50 trainee and qualified counsellors completed the training and then worked within the domestic abuse counselling service at the University. Client outcome data, presented by Jeannette at the BACP Research Conference in 2023, showed excellent outcomes for clients. Recent delegates of the Dactari training programme rated the course as 5*-excellent.
Jeannette is the author of “Counselling and Psychotherapy after Domestic Violence: A client view of what helps recovery” published in 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan, and the editor and main author of “Working with client experiences of domestic abuse: a handbook for counsellors, psychotherapists and other mental health professionals” published in 2023 by Routledge. She has presented her work on domestic abuse counselling at conferences within the UK and internationally. She started Dactari, a specialist domestic abuse counselling organisation, in August 2022 to provide online counselling for people who could not access specialist domestic abuse counselling locally, and training in DAC for counsellors, psychotherapists and other mental health professionals. Jeannette and other colleagues in Dactari are also involved in research projects in the field, including “client experiences in online counselling” and “posttraumatic growth through counselling”. These colleagues, all qualified counsellors and with years of experience of working with domestic abuse, will also contribute to the course teaching on the final day.
York St John University – CPD cancellation policy
Cancellation by delegates
We appreciate that there may be occasions where you are unable to attend a CPD course and need to cancel your booking, and we aim to make the process as straight forward as possible. To cancel your place on a CPD course, workshop or other CPD event which requires payment, notice of cancellation must be given ASAP by email to [email protected]. If your course fee is paid by your organisation, then please be aware that you will need to inform your manager directly.
If you are a fee payer, you may be able to receive a refund depending on when you inform us of the cancellation:
- If you cancel more than 14 days prior to the start of the course you will receive a full refund.
- If you cancel between 7-14 days prior to the start of the course you will receive a 50% refund.
- If you cancel less than 7 days before the event you will not be entitled to a refund.
If you are unable to attend but wish to transfer the booking to someone else, you can do this up to the day before the course starts without any further cost by contacting us via email.
Cancellation by York St John University
In some circumstances we may need to take the decision to cancel a CPD course, workshop or event. In this case all delegates will be offered a full refund, and if appropriate, be offered priority booking on any rescheduled course in the future. It may also be possible to transfer a booking to another CPD course, if appropriate.
