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Abuse Detection
and Intervention for Licensed Professionals

Abuse Detection
and Intervention for Licensed Professionals

For Licensed Clinicians, Psychologists, Social Workers, Mental Health Professionals, Marriage and Family Therapists, Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors and Domestic Violence Counselors

Our on-demand, online CE program, Abuse Detection and Intervention for Licensed Professionals, is relevant, dynamic, and accredited!

It features innovative concepts, strategies, and techniques proven to work by established experts in the field.

You can access this critical four-part, APA Accredited*, 9.5-hour CE course anytime from the comfort of your own home!

WHY THIS COURSE IS RELEVANT AND ESSENTIAL

Our research and experience working with abuse victims taught us that ALL relational abuse has roots in covert emotional abuse.

Yet, covert emotional abuse is often very difficult to detect.

With a documented rise in relational abuse cases, therapists are inundated with caseloads.

The UN calls it a “shadow epidemic” of the pandemic, spiking demand for relevant, high-quality training.

This groundbreaking video course provides a new understanding and tangible tools to equip all mental health professionals to identify when psychological abuse is the underlying cause for disrupting clients’ lives.

If you are unable to identify when your client’s depression, anxiety, or other distress is being caused by relational abuse, your clients are unlikely to experience positive therapeutic outcomes that will last long-term, particularly if covert emotional abuse is present.

Assessing whether abuse is present is essential for the practitioner when deciding on the best treatment options, and this comprehensive course is designed to help you do this.

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Course Outcomes

This 9.5-hour CE program, co-sponsored by The Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma and The MEND Project, will equip you to recognize psychological abuse clearly and empower you to provide a pathway to healing with your clients.

It is a comprehensive training curriculum for also identifying and responding to emotional abuse, the common thread among all forms of relational abuse. You will learn about Double Abuse® and learn to recognize unconscious biases that contribute to intimate partner violence and Double Abuse dynamics.

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Upon completion of this course, participants
will be able to:

  • Skillfully identify covert emotional abuse and trauma
  • Confidently determine the victim from the one causing the harm
  • Compassionately respond to victims in a meaningful way
  • Effectively address the one causing harm
  • Avoid the damaging impacts of Double Abuse

Pricing

299 FOR 9.5 CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

*Each part can also be purchased individually to gain a specific amount of CE hours.

Clarifying Overt And Hidden Forms of Abuse and Double Abuse

 (2.5 CE hours for $95)

This part opens the discussion about Emotional Abuse and Double Abuse, focusing on cultural and personal biases that contribute to, foster, and sustain abuse and Double Abuse. Participants will identify cultural and personal unconscious biases inadvertently preventing them from providing the therapeutic care that victims need to heal. It also addresses cultural biases that victims, perpetrators, family, and friends may carry, causing further oppression to the one experiencing harm.

Topics covered:

  • Identifying covert and overt forms of psychological abuse, including a comprehensive list of terms and definitions of covert emotional abuse
  • Identifying and understanding the nature of abuse, clarifying signs of abuse, and the foundation of abuse

Part 1 Abstract

Detecting Destructive Attitudes and Beliefs that Perpetuate Abuse

(2 CE Hours for $75)

This Part focuses on:

  • Understanding the terms of abuse
  • The statistics of abuse
  • Double Abuse and how it compounds trauma
  • Covert emotional abuse more deeply through the Maze of Confusion
  • The Iceberg Analogy of Abuse
  • The Five Pillars of Abuse defining the mindset and entrenched beliefs of the abuser
  • Couples therapy and why it is strictly contraindicated when psychological abuse is happening within the relationship.

Part 2 Abstract

Strategies for Effective Restoration From Abuse

(2.5 CE Hours for $95)

This Part focuses on:

  • Helping victims find their voice to contribute to change
  • Obstacles victims face
  • The faulty beliefs victims carry about themselves
  • The post-separation control wheel
  • What victims need
  • Practicing empathy in connection
  • What offenders need
  • The Accountability Model of Courage
  • What happens when a victim is not ready to speak up
  • When an abuser is not ready to accept accountability or take responsibility.

Part 3 Abstract

The Trajectory of Abuse-Induced Trauma

(2.5 CE Hours for $95)

This Part focuses on:

  • Understanding the relationship between psychological abuse and trauma
  • How abuse conditions the brain
  • Forms of trauma
  • Physiological manifestations of PTSD and Complex PTSD
  • The importance of responding well
  • Trauma and attachment
  • Developmental Trauma Disorder
  • ACES and risks
  • Children in the foster system
  • The economic cost of abuse

Part 4 Abstract

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

Annette Oltman

Annette Oltmans’ determination to fully understand what was happening within her own marriage catapulted her into several years of intense research, therapy, writing and healing. Her research and personal experience with abuse and her search for qualified therapists, informed pastors, and physicians who were qualified to identify the abuse and diagnose her CPTSD led her to founding The MEND Project.

Annette’s CV

David Hawkins, Ph.D., MSW

Co-Presenter David Hawkins, Ph.D., MSW is a clinical psychologist who has brought healing and restoration to thousands of marriages and individuals since he began his work in 1976. He is CEO/Founder of Marriage Recovery Center and Emotional Abuse Institute, and the Clinical Director of Pacific Psychological Associates, a consortium of private practitioners. He specializes in developing programming and counseling strategies for helping couples in severe conflict due to narcissistic and emotional abuse. He is a certified sex offender treatment provider, domestic violence treatment provider, and board-certified forensic examiner. He is the author of over 30 books, most recently, Why Marriage Counseling Fails. Dr. Hawkins addresses queries and content-specific aspects per postdoctoral education and training.

Dr. hawkin's cv

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

ANNETTE OLTMANS

Annette Oltman

Annette Oltmans’ determination to fully understand what was happening within her own marriage catapulted her into several years of intense research, therapy, writing and healing. Her research and personal experience with abuse and her search for qualified therapists, informed pastors, and physicians who were qualified to identify the abuse and diagnose her CPTSD led her to founding The MEND Project.

Annette’s CV
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David Hawkins, Ph.D., MSW

Co-Presenter David Hawkins, Ph.D., MSW is a clinical psychologist who has brought healing and restoration to thousands of marriages and individuals since he began his work in 1976. He is CEO/Founder of Marriage Recovery Center and Emotional Abuse Institute, and the Clinical Director of Pacific Psychological Associates, a consortium of private practitioners. He specializes in developing programming and counseling strategies for helping couples in severe conflict due to narcissistic and emotional abuse. He is a certified sex offender treatment provider, domestic violence treatment provider, and board-certified forensic examiner. He is the author of over 30 books, most recently, Why Marriage Counseling Fails. Dr. Hawkins addresses queries and content-specific aspects per postdoctoral education and training.

Dr. hawkin's cv

WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING

The material met my expectations and more! The additional naming of the dynamics gave me an expansion of the identity of the different coercive control behaviors. Through this course, I enhanced my lived experience from working in the field for 40 years.

BERNITA WALKER

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SPECIALIST

As a clinician, these materials really enlightened me to a different way of seeing relationships. The thorough definitions and terminology of abuse increased my level of understanding and left me feeling more empathic and compassionate towards clients. The concept of Double Abuse is so important as to not further harm those that have been abused and will help keep me accountable.

andrea lundeen

clinician, subtance abuse &
co-occuring disorders

Annette's gentle, firm and educated approach made the material come alive for me. I am seeing the invaluable and timely impact of this course as I am currently walking alongside several women in abusive relationships. I already find myself a much quieter and more active listener when someone is telling me their story. I am much more aware of the undercurrents in that story. I find that I am not so quick with recommendations, advice, etc. for concern that I may cause double abuse. I see that I have done some of that before and certainly have had it done to me! I am fascinated by how the material made its way into my everyday thinking, changing the way I see things.

m. yardley

The MEND Project curriculum on how to respond to victims of abuse was a real eye-opener for me. Even though I have been involved with Human Options, a non-profit based in Orange County which serves victims of domestic violence for over twenty years (currently the President of the Board), I found that the curriculum simplified complicated topics and gave me new and accurate language which makes this topic easier to discuss openly (versus keeping domestic violence in the shadows). I thought the focus on training first responders is much needed and feel EVERY pastor and police officer should have the opportunity to take this course.

CELINA DOKA

PARTNER AT KPMG LLP; PRESIDENT, BOARD OF DIRECTORS, HUMAN OPTIONS

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Scholarship Opportunities:

We offer a 50% scholarship on this product (full bundle only) for clergy and nonprofit employees needing CEs. To apply for this discount, please complete this application and submit it to us.