DOVES: Domestic Violence Education (SLAM)
This course does not currently have any scheduled dates, however if you wish to see a demo of the eLearning Introduction and Module 1 please click the Book Now button to access the Demo.
This blended learning multi-disciplinary course includes a half day of eLearning and one day of live Simulation training. It is designed for all grades of support worker, nurse, doctor, or allied mental health professional working with individuals suffering from mental illness who may also be experiencing domestic abuse.
A highly interactive, small group training where you participate in short simulated scenarios and interact with simulated patients, the course aims to bring different professionals together to further understand challenges and build confidence, skills and knowledge in dealing with them. Each scenario with simulated patients is followed by a group debrief led by our experienced facilitators.
A multidisciplinary course, it addresses the challenges faced when seeing patients in different clinical environment, such as:
- how to recognise the signs of abuse
- how to pursue the right lines of enquiry
- how to identify related risks
- when to share information
- next steps to take with that individual, using all available pathways.
This course is a collaboration between Standing Together and Maudsley Simulation.
By end of this course particiapants will:
- Improve their confidence, knowledge and skills in recognising and responding to domestic abuse
- Gain an understanding of, and confidence in, applying the Ask Validate Assess Action model of approach to domestic abuse
- Gain a greater understanding of coercive control
- Gain a greater understanding of the risks faced by those living with domestic abuse
- Increase confidence in recognising risk factors associated with domestic abuse, including awareness of SPECSS and the DASH tool.
- Develop a better understanding of the roles and responsibilities of other agencies involved in the care of those living with domestic abuse
- Gain knowledge of, and confidence, in using local referral pathways and trust protocol
- Improved confidence, knowledge and skills in screening for and responding to someone who discloses the perpetration of domestic abuse
Course schedule
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