1.10 Conclusion

This module has helped you to recognise where clients have experienced domestic abuse and explain how to best support them in your first contact with them.

In this module you have learned about:

  • What domestic abuse is
  • Myths about domestic abuse
  • What coercive control is
  • Why survivors stay in abusive relationships.

There are three domestic abuse modules, which are designed to be studied in order. As you have completed the first, you can now look at the second module ‘Supporting survivors of domestic abuse’.

The next two modules are:

  1. Supporting survivors of domestic abuse [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)]
  2. Supporting clients who are accused of perpetrating domestic abuse

Support Through Court have a suite of training modules which you can complete so please do take a look at the other modules available. You can study these in any order. They include:

Give your opinion

Well done, you have completed this module.

How much will completing this module help you in your volunteering when dealing with clients who have experienced domestic abuse? Submit your answer.

1.9 Your volunteering and domestic abuse

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