AVITH Training Courses

These new AVITH training workshops provide foundational knowledge for professionals working with adolescents and young people who use violence in the home (AVITH). All workshops are interactive, utilise informed case study examples, and allow for reflection and discussion about how to integrate learnings into practice.

Explore contemporary understandings of AVITH and issues of complexity:

Definitions and language, including differentiation from adult forms of violence
Presentations and drivers of adolescent violence in the home
Victorian context: specialist services, police responses
Legal implications for a young person who has used violence in the home

Explore adolescent development and the impacts of trauma and disability on use of violence:

Overview of the nervous system and physiological responses to stress
Impacts of trauma on the developing adolescent brain
Intergenerational impacts of trauma on parenting a dysregulated child
Understanding violence through a disability lens, including issues of autism, ADHD, mental illness

Explore approaches to integrate whole-of-family work:

Engaging with a young people who uses violence
Work with parents/carers, including managing expectations
Challenges for working with families, including relational dynamics, avoiding collusion, accountability and responsibility
Relationship building (when safe and appropriate).

Building on the previous module, explore risk assessment and safety planning for individual members and the whole family

Key considerations for basic assessments, including cumulative harm assessment
Use of information sharing schemes, including FVISS and CISS, to inform our assessment
Balancing multiple risks when other family members are using violence

Module 1

Explore contemporary understandings of AVITH and issues of complexity:

Module 2

Explore adolescent development and the impacts of trauma and disability on use of violence:

Module 3

Explore approaches to integrate whole-of-family work:

Module 4

Building on the previous module, explore risk assessment and safety planning for individual members and the whole family

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