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Many professions require continuing education on domestic violence and ethics. Check your specific licensing board or professional organization to confirm this course will meet the requirements.

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Domestic & Intimate Partner Violence Training
Trauma-Informed Interventions, Documentation, Reporting and Ethical Issues
$739.96 Value
Register Today for $199.99!
Earn up to 16.25 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Domestic Violence Course Outline
Domestic & Intimate Partner Violence: The Complete Guide to Identification, Documentation, Reporting and Trauma-Informed Responses
Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT
6.0 hours of domestic violence instruction
Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence 101
  • Myths about domestic and intimate partner violence
  • Substance abuse and domestic violence
  • Abuse in the LGBTQ Community

Red Flags of Violence: What All Clinicians Need to Know
  • Screening and assessment techniques
  • Identify immediate danger
  • Tools to assess for safety, risk, and lethality
  • Checklists and advocacy resources
  • Technology and domestic/intimate partner violence

Reporting Requirements and Documentation Guidelines
  • Privacy and confidentiality
  • Who is required to report and when?
  • Standards for making a report
  • Proper documentation and confidentiality strategies

The Next Steps: Crisis Intervention & Safety Planning
  • Safety plans while living with and leaving abusive partners
  • Safety planning for children
  • Emotional safety planning
  • Restraining orders/protective orders
Culturally Competent Responses to Abuse
  • Recognizing your own biases
  • How survivors interpret domestic violence in their culture
  • Adapting danger assessments for underserved populations
  • What is victim blaming and how to avoid it

Trauma-Informed Interventions: Transition Clients from Surviving to Thriving
  • Assess for PTSD, anxiety, trauma, and other mental health issues
  • Understand the multilayered impact of DV/IPV
  • Processing shame, anger, and guilt
  • Working with children exposed to domestic violence
  • Research, limitations, and treatment risks

Vicarious Trauma & The Clinician
  • What is compassion fatigue
  • Recognizing signs of burnout
  • Self-care techniques for the professional

Working with Victims of Violence: Interventions and Burnout Prevention
Christina Reese, PhD, LCPC
3.0 hours of domestic violence instruction
Witnessing Violence — Implications on Body, Brain, and Emotions
  • Gang Violence
  • Domestic Violence
  • Community Based-Mass Violence
  • Healing Trauma
Burnout Prevention and Vicarious Trauma in Workers
  • Defining Self Care
  • Emotion Regulation and Managing Grief

Safely Leaving the Abusive Relationship: Do's and Don'ts for Therapists
Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT
1.0 hour of domestic violence instruction

  • Barriers to leaving narcissistic abuse relationships
  • Trauma-informed approaches that respect clients' autonomy
  • Strategies to enhance clinical support and safety


Ethical and Legal Challenges of Working with Minors: Tools to Navigate Mandatory Reporting, Documentation, Boundary Issues, and More
Terry Casey, PhD
6.25 hours of general ethics instruction
Society & Vulnerability of Minors: Navigating Ethical and Legal Issues
  • The ethical and legal landscape
  • Vulnerability and power differentials
  • Federal and state laws outlining legal responsibilities
  • Licensing rules
  • Suggestions & resources for avoiding problems and mitigating risk
  • Limitations of the research and potential risks

The Necessity of a Decision-making Model
  • The Multiple Perspective Model: Step-by-step guide
  • The five essential perspectives
  • Consult, consult, consult
  • Decision & documentation

Different States, Different Laws!
  • Variability among state laws pertaining to minors
  • Documenting that parents are informed
  • Checking assumptions of parents & minors
  • Guidance to parental & minors' rights resources

Consent Rules and Issues Involving Minors
  • Consent vs. assent
  • Who can provide consent?
  • Parental rights and consent rules
  • Special rules for older adolescents
  • Informed consent process

Who is the Identified Client and why this Matters
  • When does an individual become a client?
  • Personal representatives
  • Ethical vs. legal considerations

Confidentiality Standards and Limits with Minors
  • Limits of confidentiality
  • Communications with minors and parents
  • Progressive scenarios technique
  • Parental agreements
Parental Rights…and Wrongs
  • Default rights
  • Special situations
  • Exceptions

Responding to Requests for Records
  • Healthcare records vs. educational records
  • HIPAA vs. FERPA
  • Clinical records and psychotherapy notes

Caught in the Middle of Divorced Parents
  • Informed consent process
  • Parenting plans
  • Other legal considerations

Mandatory Reporting: The "what", "when" and "to whom"
  • Mandatory reporting — state laws
  • Federal definition of child abuse
  • Variability among state laws
  • Ethical considerations

Relationships and Boundaries with Minors
  • Social media policies
  • Boundary issues with minors, and parents/guardians
  • Multiple relationships
  • Power differentials
  • Virtual relationships
  • Vulnerability of minors & potential for exploitation
  • Texting and messaging
  • Physical touch: When it is appropriate, and when it is not Informed consent
  • Organizational policies
Domestic & Intimate Partner Violence Training
Trauma-Informed Interventions, Documentation, Reporting and Ethical Issues
$739.96 Value
Register Today for $199.99!
Earn up to 16.25 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
Meet Your Domestic Violence Faculty

Katelyn Baxter-Musser, LCSW, C-DBT, is a licensed clinical social worker and is certified in Dialectic Behaviour Therapy & EMDRIA Certified in Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing and trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She earned her MSW from Arizona State University and her PsyD from California Southern University. With over 15 years of experience, she currently works in private practice where her areas of expertise include the treatment of trauma, PTSD, depression, anxiety, grief, and relationship issues. She has significant experience providing behavioral health counseling, crisis intervention, and support to families and individuals facing domestic violence and abuse. Her trainings are some of PESI's most in-demand programs attended by tens of thousands of clinicians worldwide.

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Katelyn Baxter-Musser


Dr. Christina Reese
Dr. Christina Reese, LCPC, has been working with children and their families for over 20 years and uses play therapy, art therapy, and cognitive behavior therapies to help families solve problems. She has been the director of an outpatient mental health clinic and has worked in private practice, as a court-ordered therapist, and in residential treatment centers. She works with a variety of diagnoses from ADHD to Oppositional Defiant Behavior, bipolar and mood disorders, and attachment disorders. She has a PhD in counselor education from George Washington University and is a licensed clinical supervisor. She has written six books on trauma and attachment and presented over one thousand hours of instruction on those topics.

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Terry Casey, PhD, is a licensed psychologist, and HSP health service provider with over 30 years of professional experience, including a 16-year tenure as the director of counseling & psychological services for a non-profit agency with over 30 counselors at over a dozen locations. He is in private practice in Franklin, Tennessee, teaches ethics and professional issues in counseling at Lipscomb University's graduate program in clinical mental health counseling, and guest lectures at Trevecca Nazarene University's PhD program in Clinical Counseling. Dr. Casey also served for several years as the chair of the ethics committee for the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselors' Association and in an advisory capacity for graduate counseling programs at two universities. He has presented frequently on ethics to organizations such as the American Counseling Association, the Tennessee Licensed Professional Counselors Association, the Nashville Area Association of Christian Counselors, and others.

Click here for information about Terry Casey
Terry Casey

Frequently Asked Questions

Each state has its own continuing education requirement for training in domestic violence for behavioral health professionals, social workers, and other professionals. This course includes a comprehensive overview of domestic violence, but it is important that you verify with your specific licensing board or professional organization to ensure it covers the required topics.

Each state has its own continuing education requirement for training in ethics for behavioral health professionals, social workers, and other professionals. This course includes a comprehensive overview of ethics, but it is important that you verify with your specific licensing board or professional organization to ensure it covers the required topics.

Yes! This training is an indispensable guide for improving outcomes for those impacted by domestic and intimate partner violence. You will walk away with:

  • Screening tools to assess for safety, risk, and lethality
  • Checklists and advocacy resources
  • Documentation and confidentiality strategies
  • Guidance on crisis intervention and safety planning
  • Culturally competent responses to abuse
  • Trauma-informed interventions for clients exposed to domestic violence
  • Guidelines for mandatory reporting: The "what", "when" and "to whom"
  • Updates on state laws pertaining to minors
  • Vicarious trauma and the clinician
  • Perspectives on boundary issues with minors, and parents/guardians

With over 16 hours of online video training, role-plays, insightful commentary, interventions, and examples, you will have compelling new clinical strategies that you can immediately start applying in your practice! We encourage you to take the time to fully absorb everything. Watch the videos. Read the materials. Get your CE hours! Earn your certification!

But if you review all of the course materials and are still not satisfied, call us at 800-844-8260. Your satisfaction is guaranteed.

Yes! Once you register for this course you'll have unlimited access to all the materials, including bonus content.
Domestic & Intimate Partner Violence Training
Trauma-Informed Interventions, Documentation, Reporting and Ethical Issues
$739.96 Value
Register Today for $199.99!
Earn up to 16.25 CE Hours included in the course tuition.
Click here for Credit details | Click here for course objectives and outline
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