Learning from People with Lived Experience Seminar: "You must have enjoyed it".

This research seminar is open to members of the West Midlands Social Work Teaching Partnership. Please see below our Partner organisations.

This research seminar hopes to give learners a better understanding of what it's like to live with domestic abuse and coercive control, the challenges men face when trying to get help, the behaviours and tactics that may be used by female perpetrators to gaslight and misdirect professionals, how children are affected by living with domestic abuse, how post-separation abuse can often be ignored, and how unconscious bias can blind professionals, such as social workers and police, to evidence.

Areas covered:

• A personal  account of experiencing domestic abuse and post-separation abuse - including interactions with Social Workers and the Family Court.

• Perpetrator behaviours and tactics designed to gaslight and misdirect professionals.

• The effects on children of living with domestic abuse and coercive control, and post-separation abuse