Date
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Available to
Allied Health Providers
General Practitioners
Health and Social Service providers
Continuing Professional Development
2 RACGP CPD hours - 1 hour Educational Activites, 1 hour Reviewing Performance
This workshop is for GPs and other primary care providers to enhance skills in safely engaging with people who use violence. A panel of experts will discuss how to sensitively ask and respond to disclosures and encourage your patients to seek help appropriately.
Aim: To enhance skills and confidence to identify when violence is occurring and safely engage with people who use violence and encourage appropriate help-seeking.
Learning outcomes:
- Identify patient presentations, narratives and behaviours that may be indicative of use of domestic violence
- Analyse evidence-based risk factors in relation to perpetrator behaviour
- Show how to safely and sensitively ask patients about use of domestic violence and assess their level of risk
- Implement responding to the stages of help-seeking for people who use domestic violence, for example, pre-contemplation to contemplation.