Older Adult abusive relationships, whether between intimate partners, families, or caregiver/care recipient relationships create safety concerns and may pose difficulties with service planning and interventions. In some cases, abusive behaviors are obvious and can be validated with evidence. In others, it can be very difficult to identify and verify. In this thought-provoking and engaging trauma-informed training, participants will focus on power and control dynamics in abusive relationships.
During the training, participants will learn various tactics abusers use, explore many reasons and situations where someone may feel they cannot or will not leave an abusive relationship, and work through an experiential exercise to help develop empathy and awareness of various outcomes and resources when working with people who are being abused. Participants will complete numerous activities to apply content from training to their practice while keeping power and control dynamics in mind.
After attending this training, participants will be able to:
- Define abusive relationships in older adults and adults with disabilities as it applies to APS
- Identify power and control dynamics.
- Clarify APS’ role and how power and control dynamics might inform case interventions.
- Identify why some adults may choose to continue the relationship with the abuser.