Identifying and Responding to Domestic and Family Violence: Short course

What you will learn

These short e-learning modules provide practical ways that health practitioners can increase their skills in identifying and responding to domestic violence, child neglect, and assess elderly abuse.

There are 10 modules available and each takes approximately one hour to complete. You can choose to complete one or as many modules as you wish.

Learning Outcomes

1. Strengthen your skills in identifying and responding to domestic and family violence.
2. Establish a safe and collaborative environment in order to ask patients about their use of violence, conduct basic risk assessments, and motivate patients towards referrals.
3. Learn how to respond safely to child abuse and neglect, and determine when reporting is mandated.
4. Implement principles of trauma and violence informed care, and learn how these principles benefit facilitating disclosure, and conducting safety assessments in addition to providing early support.
5. Learn how to respond safely and appropriately to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their families who are at risk of, or are presenting with family violence.
6. Strengthen your skills in identifying and responding to elder abuse, or to older persons at risk of violence and abuse.
7. Key resources for GPs and GP practices to operate under the Victorian Government's information sharing schemes across the services system in addressing family violence.

Each of the following elearning modules need to be enrolled in separately. Clicking on the enrol now button will give you the options to purchase one or several of the following:

1. Identifying and Responding to Domestic and Family Violence
2. Identifying People who have used Domestic and Family Violence
3. Identifying and Responding to Child Abuse and Neglect
4. Providing Trauma and Violence Informed Care in Primary Care
5. Addressing Family Violence: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
6. Six Steps to Support you to Assess and Respond to Elder Abuse
7. Supporting Primary Care to Implement Family Violence Information Sharing
8. Recognising and Responding to DFSV Experienced by Ethnic/Racial Minority Women
9. Recognising and Responding to LGBTQA+ People Impacted by DFV
10. Identify and respond to intimate partner sexual violence & reproductive coercion