Flower power: The complex and dangerous role an offender's 'kindness' can play in an abusive relationship

Friday, March 30, 2012: 10:20 AM-10:40 AM
Yerba Buena Salon 7 (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Speaker:
Kristin E. Carmichael, LISW, MBA, CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center


Presentation Format:
Poster

Learning Objectives:
  1. Be able to identify the most common kind but manipulative behaviors and strategies offenders use to control survivors.
  2. Have the capacity to articulate how and why offenders use kindness as a tool to re-engage their partners.
  3. Know the innovative and effective steps participants can take to help their clients identify and defend against these more covert forms of abuse.
Description:
An in-depth exploration of the role offenders' kind and loving behavior often plays in maintaining the system of control in abusive relationships. The development of practical strategies medical advocates can use to help their clients see these manipulations for what they are and defend against them.