
Explore the essence, meaning, and support for domestic violence, detailing what violence is, how it manifests, its types, misconceptions, victim support, and how to identify and help.
Meet the expert team behind this course, featuring Gloria Jim Trevor and Valentin, whose credentials span psychology, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, nutrition, and clinical psychology to deliver accessible, comprehensive training.
Understand the format of our training, which delivers deep, scientifically based information in an accessible, note-friendly way, with original course text and a focus on efficient learning.
Explore the essence of domestic violence psychology with a brief, practical course designed for learners and their loved ones, and receive two certificates upon completion.
Identify violence as acts causing physical, mental, or emotional suffering directed at others or self. Include forms like manipulation and indifference, and note macro and personal factors.
Identify physical injury and threats, verbal abuse, and controlling, coercive behaviors as forms of domestic violence; recognize mood swings, aggression, sexual coercion, and manipulating tactics as warning signs.
Explore the forms of domestic violence, including physical violence, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse, along with controlling behaviors such as financial domination, threats, and obstruction of medical care.
Show that domestic violence can be nonphysical and about control, leading victims to blame themselves. Encourage seeking qualified help, resisting violence morally, and breaking away to gain independence and safety.
Listen empathetically, avoid condemning, validate feelings, respect decisions, and guide toward safety and service connections, emphasizing that violence is unacceptable and not the victim's fault.
Develop and implement a safety plan to respond to violence risk, including calling police in emergencies, coordinating with neighbors, learning local helplines, and preparing a safe place and escape route.
Identify natural reactions to domestic violence by recognizing acute stress reactions, fear, guilt, shame, anger, and post-traumatic stress, along with changes in mood, memory, and social relations.
Examine the consequences of violence against women, including silence, guilt, and diminished self-esteem, and encourage victims to seek help from police and victim-support organizations.
Identify signs of victimization across children and adults, including apathy, aggressive or self-harm behavior, emotional dependence, sexual abuse indicators, substance use, eating disorders, and relationship difficulties.
Complete this course and celebrate your achievement by downloading your certificate of completion and a second certificate, sharing feedback via a review, and messaging us with questions for future courses.
Hello and welcome to our online certification course on Domestic violence - essence, meaning, support. The course consists of 9 topics in which we will examine in detail the problem related to Domestic violence. The topic is important for society and the individual. Knowledge of the problem and methods of dealing with it is crucial for any person and specialist who has contact with people in a similar state. We hope that our course will bring some light to the issues and enrich your knowledge and experience and help you or your loved ones to deal with this problem!
In this course, you will learn what is violence and how exactly is manifested, which factors strengthen the trend toward violence. What is domestic violence and when your partner is prone to it? What are the types of domestic violence? Why it is very important to talk about this problem and what can be the misconceptions about it? How can we help a person who is a victim of domestic violence? How can you help yourself in case of that kind of violence? What are the natural reactions of victims of domestic violence? Consequences of violence against women and what are the signs of identification of the victim of violence.
This course is suitable for: Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Teachers, Pedagogues, Social Workers, Medical Practitioners, Nurses, Parents, Academicians, Students, Parents, Families, Partners and Anyone Interested In the topic of Domestic Violence.
In our training, we adhere to the idea and purpose of providing deep, useful, accurate and clear scientifically-based information, which in theory can be used for any purpose and in practice can help anyone. In each lecture, we show the original text of the course, and the goal is a more accessible and proper understanding of the training. In this way, we believe that we support the easier perception and comprehension of scientific information. Also, this way anyone can take notes. We hope you appreciate our goal of giving you as much as possible for a minimum of time.
About the author - Valentin Boyadzhiev is a trained nutritionist, graduated Master of Psychology in "Psychology and Psychopathology of Development". He has acquired Professional Qualification "Teacher of Psychology" and Postgraduate Professional Qualification "Psychological Counseling in Psychosomatic and Social Adaptation Disorders". He has obtained a Psychoanalysis Diploma and he has specialized in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy. He is a member of the Association "Bulgarian Psychoanalytic Space", "International Society of Applied Psychoanalysis" and „International Alliance of Holistic Therapists“. He is a lecturer on issues related to nutrition, diet, supplementation, food and sports. He is also a teacher and a lecturer in the field of psychology, logic, ethics, law, and philosophy. He has been a school psychologist since 2017. He has been participating annually in scientific conferences on psychology, psychotherapy, dietetics and medicine. His main interest and practice are in the field of psychoanalysis and clinical psychology.