Speakers
Caleb Lloyd
Parallel Workshops
People who use family violence are typically complex people with complex backgrounds and life problems, so why are many interventions brief, focused on only one or two targets, and one-size-fits-all? In this session, we will think about what a next generation of intervention for family violence might look like, exploring which innovations might be highest priority for implementation to achieve meaningful behaviour change. Using an evaluation of a recently developed program as a launch-point, we'll consider different ways to address the complexity of the problem of family violence, the complexity of the people who use violence in families, and the complexity of the change process toward non-violence. We'll also discuss a core challenge within this type of intervention: How do program facilitators integrate their focus on the person who has used violence (to effectively engage them in the process of change) with the primary goal to reduce victimisation (so the individual accepts personal responsibility to always choose non-violent action)?
