Season 5 Episode 8: The Myth of the Domestic Violence Incident

In this episode, David and Ruth speak about the “Myth of the Domestic Violence Incident” chapter of David's recently published book Stop Blaming Mothers and Ignoring Fathers: How to Transform The Way We Keep Children Safe From Domestic Violence. They discuss how an isolated incident lens:Focuses systems interventions and professional responses on isolated acts of physical violence rather than on patterns of violence and coercive control, which blinds professionals and systems to the wider dangers created to adult and child survivors by a perpetrator  Makes it harder to see the loss of liberty and entrapment generated by the perpetrator’s pattern Fails to document and address the danger and harm created by nonphysical acts of abuse and removal of liberty such as: Ongoing control directed at the adult partnerWillingness to harm children as a way to pressure and hurt their partnerThe underlying attitudes and beliefs that entitle perpetrator to control and violenceThe manipulations of systems and threats or actual use of systems like family court and child protection to continue fear and control campaignsHow the Safe & Together Model helps identify entrapment, loss of liberty, and impact on child, partner, and family functioning to increase the awareness of professionals as to the patterns, trauma, and danger created by a perpetratorSend us Fan Mail Now available! Mapping the Perpetrator’s Pattern: A Practitioner’s Tool for Improving Assessment, Intervention, and Outcomes The web-based Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool is a virtual practice tool for improving assessment, intervention, and outcomes through a perpetrator pattern-based approach. The tool allows practitioners to apply the Model’s critical concepts and principles to their current case load in realCheck out David Mandel's new book Stop Blaming Mothers and Ignoring Fathers: How to Transform the Way We Keep Children Safe from Domestic Violence.Visit the Safe & Together Institute website.Start taking Safe & Together Institute courses. Check out Safe & Together Institute upcoming events.