Available by home study online course (live online broadcast and live seminar by arrangement) This is a current contents course on family violence. This study presents the emerging controversies in this area of study; to present both sides and invite the learner to consider the arguments. Meets all US state requirements for domestic violence education.

Developed by: Karen Albig Smith, LMFT, LCAS, MAC, CAP, SAP, SAE

Revised 2024

Description: This course explores the development of the literature on intimate partner violence.  Beginning with a cursory discussion on anger the study moves into a primer on attachment theory and its connection to how individuals have violent responses to anxiety and frustration and yet others may be vulnerable to victimization.  A concerted effort has been made to provide a variety of assessment and treatment tools throughout the study which should prove useful to practitioners.  What we are learning about intimate partner violence precedes the discussion on batterers and victims.  Batterer typologies are presented and discussed.  Victims are described including a discussion about the connection between attachment experiences and victimization.  A discussion of partner violence would be remiss without discussing the effects on subpopulations and here we discuss children, elders, and same-sex couples. This study presents the emerging controversies in this area of study; to present both sides and invite the learner to consider the arguments.

Objectives:
1.  Participants will be able to discuss types of anger, psychobiological manifestations, and intervention tips.
2.  Participants will be able to discuss the relationship of attachment style to violence.
3.  Participants will be able to describe interventions specific to resolving attachment disturbances. 
4.  Participants will be able to describe gender-related differences in the expression of emotions.
5.  Participants will be able to describe incidence and prevalence of intimate partner violence.
6.  Participants will be able to articulate profile information for batterers and victims.
7.  Participants will be able to discriminate conflicting science in a manner that serves clients. 

CE Credits:  6

Agenda
Hour One: Anger
Hour Two: Attachment theory primer
Hour Three: Intimate Partner Violence
Hour Four: Batterers
Hour Five: Victims
Hour Six: Other populations

CE Broker#: 20-328839

Methods: Pre-test, study guide, posttest and evaluation, internet sources via URLs, Q&A by email.

Content Area: Social and cultural foundations, Treatment knowledge, Helping relationship, Domestic violence, Addictions, Clinical evaluation and assessment, Abuse and trauma, Special populations/problems, Behavior disorders.

Purpose: To equip the practitioner with an evidence-based understanding of the issues that underlies violence in relationships.

Target Audience:  Social workers, marriage and family therapists, licensed professional counselors, mental health counselors, nurses, employee assistance professionals, addiction professionals, behavioral health technicians, and other allied professionals who may work with these populations.

Approvals:

National Board for Certified Counselors (N.B.C.C.) Program Services has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP #: 5978.                  
Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified.           
Program Services is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

Social Work:  State Licensing Board Approval Information for Continuing Education.
The following states accept our national approvals (NBCC) for social work CE:  Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin.
We are approved in two states for social work (Florida and Alabama).
The following states accept Program Services CE if other state SW boards have approved our CE. (Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan,  Mississippi, New Jersey, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia.)    
These states specify cross-disciplinary CE is acceptable, have no specified requirements/limitations, or that social workers can self- submit after the fact: 
Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Maine, Montana, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Wyoming, New Mexico.
Program Services has not applied for CE for social work in New York, Hawaii, Iowa, and Minnesota.

National Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors (NAADAC) #86395
Florida Board of Nursing FBN #2456 CEBroker provider # 50-1651
Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling: BAP #162 CEBroker provider # 50-1651

Florida Certification Board, Inc. #159A
Alabama State Board of Social Work Examiners #0339
Georgia Board of Nursing  CEBroker provider #50-1651
South Carolina Board of Nursing  CEBroker provider #50-1651
District Columbia Board of Nursing CEBroker provider #50-1651
Allied profession approvals can be found at https://www.programservices.org/approvals?

Online Course

CE Broker#:
20-302999
CE Credits:
6
Price:
$60.00

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