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This course provides an overview of a dignity-driven approach to working with people who use abuse.

The approach highlights perpetrators' ability to choose respectful behaviour, building on their existing capacities and ambivalence about their abusive actions to support meaningful change. Participants will explore this through a Response-Based Practice lens, which emphasizes dignity, resistance, and the social interactions that shape abusive and respectful behaviour. 

What You Will Learn

  1. Participants will be able to describe how they can use clients’ excuses and justifications for violence to help clients to identify their pro-social values
  2. Participants will be able to explore the client’s ambivalence related to their behaviour, explore the impact of the client’s actions, and be able to align with the client’s own non-violent initiatives
  3. Participants will be able to describe how microanalysis can be used to help highlight agency in client behaviour, and to promote positive conversation around the ability to change and the client’s prosocial values.
  4. Participants will be able to describe how framebreaks can be used in therapy to highlight a client’s ambivalence about their abusive behaviour

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

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Type
Live Online Lecture
Days
M
Time
1:00PM to 4:00PM
Dates
Nov 02, 2026 to Nov 23, 2026
Schedule
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Total Hours
12.0
Format
Online: with real-time learning  
Fee
Course Fee $425.00

What to Expect

This is an interactive course; you will engage online with your class and instructor through our online learning management system. Plan to log into your course regularly throughout the week. Students will have the opportunity to practice the skills they have learned in an interview with a simulated client.

Real-time Learning

There are live Zoom sessions scheduled for this course. 

November 2 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm ET
November 9 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm ET
November 16 - Individual Practice Component
November 23 - 1:00pm - 4:00pm ET

Completion Requirements

This is a graded course where a complete or incomplete will be issued. Evaluation will be based on participation and completion of course activities. Attendance in the live Zoom sessions are mandatory.

Textbook

No textbook required.

Required