Virtual faculty:
Debra Wingfield, Ed.D., LPC (Colorado) educated psychotherapists in small group training and university classrooms for over 15 years. Dr. Wingfield was in private practice for over 20 years focused on treating Adult Children from Dysfunctional Families; Child Abuse Victims; Domestic Violence Victims, Offenders, and Child Witness victims.
She presented trainings and
classroom courses in Domestic Violence Treatment, and Addictions related to Domestic Violence. Now these up-dated courses (from her classroom curriculum) and training workshops are made available to you virtually,using Green Technology.
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All training courses require
- Attendance for the total hours offered,
- Passing score on “experiential based” training quiz in order to receive certificate of attendance and course completion.
- Training bonus: All courses are audio-taped. Call files are made available to participants within 24 hours after the call as downloadable MP3 files. All course materials are e-mailed or faxed to participants prior to each call.
- Enroll now for upcoming courses: $197/7 training hours (value $1245.00) Scroll down and select the courses that meet your needs, then follow the directions to “Register Online Now”.
Contact our international headquarters located in
Pueblo West, CO Phone: 719-647-0652
questions@houseofpeacepubs.com
Course Descriptions
DV* Victim Dynamics
(2 Sessions-must take both to receive training credit.)
Description: Focuses on victim dynamics, diagnostic indicators that victims may present without revealing an abusive relationship, and treatment stages for recovery. Define the cycle of violence to identify the reinforcing nature of violence and the impact on the victim.
Faculty: Debra Wingfield, Ed.D.
DV Offender Dynamics and Treatment Approaches
(2 Sessions-must take both to receive training credit.)
Description: Focuses on the characteristics and dynamics of offenders, how the cycle of violence perpetuates the violent behavior patterns, and anger issues. Patterns of Relationship Abuse addresses the specific types of abuse present in domestic violence; power and control versus equality-based relationships. Use of motivational interviewing in treatment with a cognitive-behavioral based psychoeducational approach.
Faculty: Debra Wingfield, Ed.D.
Effects of DV on Children
Description: Focuses on witnessing abuse and the abusive effects, long-term effects on male and female children, and interventions to assist children in healing.
Faculty: Debra Wingfield, Ed.D.
Intergenerational Transmission of DV
Description: Focuses on Family of Origin patterns that are instrumental in the intergenerational transmission of family violence. Identify Family of Origin Patterns related to family violence and how they contribute to DV.
Faculty: Debra Wingfield, Ed.D.
DV Interviewing
Description: DV Interviewing addresses the skills and procedures needed to develop an appropriate treatment plan for clients. Provides a balanced, informative data base to use in treatment planning. Special emphasis is given to court-ordered, resistive, and difficult clients.
Faculty: Debra Wingfield, Ed.D.
Forensic Evaluation for DV
Description: Includes training in evaluation of offenders to determine treatment needs. Evaluation includes psychological functioning, family and social relationships, substance use, risk for violence/abuse, and other key areas of functioning.
Faculty: Debra Wingfield, Ed.D.
DV Multi-cultural Issues
Description: The interaction of cultural issues and domestic violence can impede the counseling process with offenders and victims unless treatment professionals address these issues directly. Development of ethnic sensitivity for treatment professionals is encouraged. Identify cultural dynamics related to domestic violence. Family dynamics of various ethnic minorities in America related to DV. Cross-cultural counseling skills to address Domestic Violence are developed.
Faculty: Debra Wingfield, Ed.D.
DV Sociopolitical Issues
Description: Addresses societal value systems that impact relationships. Patriarchy, sexism, racism, homophobia, and politicism are viewed from historical perspectives, effects on value systems, and current trends. Treatment issues related to distorted thinking in the sociopolitical arena are addressed.
Faculty: Debra Wingfield, Ed.D.
DV Laws
Description: Laws and politics affecting treatment of court-ordered clients will address confidentiality, duty to warn, standards for treatment and laws in the criminal justice system that relate to domestic violence.
Faculty: Debra Wingfield, Ed.D.
DV Resources
Description: Resources for treatment available for victims and offenders and their interactive effect on the criminal justice system are an important aspect of containing domestic violence.
Faculty: Debra Wingfield, Ed.D.
DV Gender Issues
Description: Gender Issues focuses on socialization of males and females. Communication style differences for males and females are addressed. Conflict resolution skills and treatment issues are covered. Love myths that perpetuate victims remaining in domestic violence relationships are exposed to interrupt the cycle of violence. Faculty: Debra Wingfield, Ed.D.
Learning Styles in DV Treatment
Description: Training that educates on different ways in which a person learns (such as visual, auditory, tactile/kinesthetic), use of multiple-intelligences and other Learning Style inventories to assess DV clients, and how to use psychoeducation to effectively accommodate those styles.
Faculty: Debra Wingfield, Ed.D.
Parenting and DV
Description: Positive Parenting --Being a parent who enhances self-esteem and teaches children to be responsible for themselves can be very challenging when parenting role models were punishing and critical. In this workshop, you will learn alternative means of parenting designed to raise responsible, self-reliant children with high levels of self-esteem and competent communication skills. Treatment Professionals working with any family related issues can benefit from learning these skills to pass on to clients.
Faculty: Debra Wingfield, Ed.D.
Abuse Across the Lifespan: Lifetime Impacts (ACE Study)
Description: Recent medical research validates long-term biopsychosocial effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE). Research on ACE factors supports the need to integrate ACE-based treatment into current Domestic Violence Offender, and Victim/survivor treatment programs. This interactive workshop reviews ACE research (extensive bibliography provided) and provides practical application of ACE-based treatment for integration into existing treatment programs. The strength-based treatment program is strategically designed to provide clients with tools and techniques they can apply throughout the remainder of their lives. If additional mental health treatment is needed during highly stressful times or at various life development stages, treatment time is significantly reduced.
Faculty: Debra Wingfield, Ed.D.
Child Abuse, Substance Abuse, Domestic Violence: The Intersections
Description: Training that addresses the bio/psycho/social effects of child abuse, substance abuse, the process of addiction, causes, stages and symptoms of substance abuse and other addictions (e.g. gambling and sexual), and how child abuse and addictions interact with domestic violence.
Faculty: Debra Wingfield, Ed.D.
DV and Addictive Behaviors
Description: Domestic Violence and Addictive Behaviors (processes) focuses on the process of addiction development. How domestic violence and addictive behavior interact is explored.
Differential interventions for various treatment issues are identified.
Faculty: Debra Wingfield, Ed.D.
Resistive Client Treatment
Description: Counselors working with offenders are automatically working with a resistive population. Discover the basis for client resistance utilizing motivational interviewing and the stages of change model. Define various areas of resistance. This includes client and counselor areas of resistance, and teaches counselors effective techniques to manage resistance. Practical applications of counseling techniques to handle client resistance in domestic violence offenders and victims are explored.
Faculty: Debra Wingfield, Ed.D.
*Domestic Violence
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