Training
Counseling Abusers: An Introductory Training
Emerge conducts a three-day Introductory Training three times per year at the Arlington Unitarian Universalist Church, near the Emerge office.
The next introductory training will be September 23-25, 2020. Due to the
COVID-19 outbreak, this training will be conducted via Zoom.
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COVID-19 outbreak, this training will be conducted via Zoom.
Click here to register!
This course is intended for anyone working with families affected by domestic violence. Past participants have included batterer intervention program group leaders, supervisors and administrators, social workers, victim advocates, correctional staff, psychologists, violence prevention educators, substance abuse counselors, healthcare workers, probation and police officers, clergy, military personnel, and program managers.
Participants will learn the Emerge curriculum and how it compares to other models. The training is structured to be highly interactive and includes several participant role plays. This interactive structure allows participants to acquire and practice skills to be used in leading groups. For participants who work with victims and do not intend to lead groups, this training will help to inform them about what happens in abuser education groups. The course meets BIP group leader training requirements in Massachusetts and in many other states. Over the past 6 years, over 1,000 people from 45 states and 15 nations have taken this course.
Topics include:
Participants will learn the Emerge curriculum and how it compares to other models. The training is structured to be highly interactive and includes several participant role plays. This interactive structure allows participants to acquire and practice skills to be used in leading groups. For participants who work with victims and do not intend to lead groups, this training will help to inform them about what happens in abuser education groups. The course meets BIP group leader training requirements in Massachusetts and in many other states. Over the past 6 years, over 1,000 people from 45 states and 15 nations have taken this course.
Topics include:
- Overview of legal, medical, and psychological responses to battering
- Intake and assessment procedures
- Overview of the First Stage Curriculum
- Abuser tactics of control (interactive exercise)
- Negative vs. positive self-talk (interactive exercise)
- Methods and rationale for conducting partner contacts
- Substance abuse overlaps
- Assessing for dangerousness and lethality
- Overview of the Second Stage Curriculum
- Comparison of different treatment models
- Illustrative role play of two different treatment models
- Personal accounts of battered women, as presented by a panel
- The empowerment model of helping battered women
- Battering in lesbian relationships
- Role Play of partner contact scenarios
- Role Play of Second Stage Group co-leadership
- Working with under-served populations of abusers
- Personal accounts of Emerge program participants, as presented by a panel
- Mental health responses to abusers
- Program Management and Group Supervision
Course tuition is $250 for the first person and $175 for each additional person from the same agency. Tuition includes continental breakfast and refreshments, as well as an Emerge program manual and a compilation of supplemental readings.
This program has been approved for over 22 hours of continuing education credits for Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, and Licensed Alcohol & Drug Counselors.
To register for our next training, see the link at the top of this page.
If you have questions about this training that are not answered on our website, please call our office at 617-547-9879.
Advanced Training
“Is It Abuse?” Conference A Conference on the Intersections Between Therapy
and Abuser Education
Emerge has developed a one-day conference in order to reach out to the therapeutic community in the hope that abusers in therapy can benefit from both services as much as possible.
Topics Include:
For information on having Emerge customize an “Is It Abuse?” Conference at your agency, or to find out about any future offerings elsewhere, email Ted German, Emerge’s Director of Training.
Topics Include:
- Treatment goals, techniques and engagement strategies used in abuser education programs
- How therapy and abuser education can support each other
- How to put theory into practice using role plays and case discussions
- “The Continuum of Harmful Behavior,” a new tool which can be used to assess whether a client is an abuser or is acting in an insensitive and alienating manner toward their family
- Tools used in abuser education that may also be useful in therapy
For information on having Emerge customize an “Is It Abuse?” Conference at your agency, or to find out about any future offerings elsewhere, email Ted German, Emerge’s Director of Training.
Abusers 201
Essential Up-to-Date Information about Abusers and Abuser Interventions
Essential Up-to-Date Information about Abusers and Abuser Interventions
Teaching Objectives: This (free of charge) training conference is intended for members of domestic violence teams who are recipients of the Grants to Encourage Arrest or RURAL Grants, including police officers, dispatchers, victim advocates, probation officers, prosecutors, batterer intervention program staff, child welfare workers, faith leaders, health care workers, and mental health and substance abuse providers. (If possible, training slots will become available for others who are not Arrest or Rural grantees. Contact David Adams at [email protected] for more information about this.) The purpose of Abusers 201 is provide enhanced training about abusers and abuser intervention programs to interdisciplinary teams to help them to better respond to violence against women, including cases involving sexual assault and stalking. Abusers 201 is a ‘one-stop’ training seminar about abusers and abuser interventions, including emerging models for promoting abuser accountability in the criminal justice system and the community.
Training Faculty: The training faculty is a “Who’s Who” of experts on abusers and abuser interventions, representing a wide range of fields, including batterer interventions, police, probation, judges, prosecutors, victim advocates, community prevention specialists, and researchers.
Contact: If you have any questions, please contact David Adams of Emerge at [email protected].
Training Faculty: The training faculty is a “Who’s Who” of experts on abusers and abuser interventions, representing a wide range of fields, including batterer interventions, police, probation, judges, prosecutors, victim advocates, community prevention specialists, and researchers.
Contact: If you have any questions, please contact David Adams of Emerge at [email protected].
Registration for this event has been filled.
This project is supported by Grant 2011-TA-AX-K085 awarded by the Office of Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions and recommendations expressed in this document are those of the author(s) and don’t necessarily represent the views of the Department of Justice, Office of Violence Against Women.
Additional Conference Material Monday, November 4th
10:30am: Promoting Accountability and Engagement
BIP Engagement and Accountability – David Garvin, Alternatives to Domestic Aggression
Unselfish Self Care – Ted German, Emerge
Accountability at Caminar Latino, Inc. – Julia Perilla, Casa Esperanza
Supplemental Reading
Operationalizing Accountability – Jeffrie K. Cape & David J. H. Garvin
“Accountability” Excerpt from Safety For Women – Barbara J. Hart
Safety for Women: Monitoring Batterers’ Programs (Full Manual) – Barbara J. Hart
BIP Engagement and Accountability – David Garvin, Alternatives to Domestic Aggression
Unselfish Self Care – Ted German, Emerge
Accountability at Caminar Latino, Inc. – Julia Perilla, Casa Esperanza
Supplemental Reading
Operationalizing Accountability – Jeffrie K. Cape & David J. H. Garvin
“Accountability” Excerpt from Safety For Women – Barbara J. Hart
Safety for Women: Monitoring Batterers’ Programs (Full Manual) – Barbara J. Hart
Hosting a Training
If you are interested in bringing Emerge to your area, we are able to customize our trainings to your needs. Many agencies have brought Emerge to state conferences or have brought Emerge to the area in order to help start batterer intervention services.
For more information on fees or to set up a training, contact Ted German, Director of Training, at 617-547-9879 or by email.
For more information on fees or to set up a training, contact Ted German, Director of Training, at 617-547-9879 or by email.
Observing Groups
If you are interested in observing an Emerge group session as part of your training, we would be happy to schedule you in. There is a $25 fee per observation. We require all observers to sign a confidentiality agreement and we ask that they do not participate during group sessions. Please call or email Emerge to schedule these observations before paying.
If you are planning on observing group sessions in order to achieve state certification, you will need to observe six sessions.
Volunteers and interns have the opportunity to observe group sessions at no charge. They may also be able to attend a training at no charge, if they make a six month commitment to volunteer or intern.
If you are planning on observing group sessions in order to achieve state certification, you will need to observe six sessions.
Volunteers and interns have the opportunity to observe group sessions at no charge. They may also be able to attend a training at no charge, if they make a six month commitment to volunteer or intern.
Faculty
David Adams, Ed.D., is Co-founder as well as Co-Director of Emerge, the first counseling program in the nation for men who abuse women, established in 1977. David has led groups for men who batter and conducted outreach to victims of abuse for 36 years. He has led parenting education classes for fathers for 12 years. He is one of the nation’s leading experts on men who batter and has conducted trainings for social service and criminal justice professionals in 45 states and 16 nations. He has published numerous articles and book chapters, and writes a featured blog on The Huffington Post. David is a Commissioner on the Massachusetts Governor’s Council on Sexual and Domestic Violence and Director of the National Domestic Violence Risk Assessment and Management Training Project. His book, “Why Do They Kill? Men Who Murder Their Intimate Partners,” was published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2007.
Susan Cayouette, Ed.D., is Co-Director of Emerge. Susan has been a group leader and clinical supervisor at Emerge for 28 years and a mental health clinician for 15 years. She has lectured around the United States and in four countries on work with victims and abusers, and she has authored articles on women who work with batterers, lesbians who batter, and the connections between battering and substance abuse. Susan also currently leads an ongoing group at Emerge.
Ted German, Ph.D, is Director of Training at Emerge. Ted has 27 years of experience working on domestic violence issues. He began co-facilitating groups at Emerge in 1987 and was Counseling Coordinator and Co-Director of Emerge from 1991-1993. From 1994 until his return to Emerge in 2002, Ted was a group leader and supervisor for two other abuser programs. In addition to his training duties, Ted currently leads an ongoing group at Emerge.
Teresa Martinez coordinates Emerge’s Latino program. She co-leads an ongoing group, an intake group, and a parenting education group for men.
Mark Medina, M.Div. co-led the Gay Men’s group and worked for Emerge for over 8 years. Prior to working at Emerge, Mark worked in family counseling.
Erika Robinson, Ed.M. has been a domestic abuse specialist serving batterer intervention programs in Massachusetts for over 12 years. She currently co-leads three ongoing and one intake group at Emerge as well as co-leading the fatherhood group. Before coming to Emerge, Erika provided counseling and advocacy services for battered women through the Concord, MA police department.
Laurie Van Loon, LICSW is a clinical social worker in Framingham in private practice, with an emphasis on couples therapy, parenting, counseling for abuse survivors and cross-cultural work. Laurie also provides consultation and training on various topics, and is a trainer during our “Is It Abuse?” conference for therapists.
If you would like to speak to any of the above faculty, contact our office by phone at (617) 547-9879 or by e-mail.
Susan Cayouette, Ed.D., is Co-Director of Emerge. Susan has been a group leader and clinical supervisor at Emerge for 28 years and a mental health clinician for 15 years. She has lectured around the United States and in four countries on work with victims and abusers, and she has authored articles on women who work with batterers, lesbians who batter, and the connections between battering and substance abuse. Susan also currently leads an ongoing group at Emerge.
Ted German, Ph.D, is Director of Training at Emerge. Ted has 27 years of experience working on domestic violence issues. He began co-facilitating groups at Emerge in 1987 and was Counseling Coordinator and Co-Director of Emerge from 1991-1993. From 1994 until his return to Emerge in 2002, Ted was a group leader and supervisor for two other abuser programs. In addition to his training duties, Ted currently leads an ongoing group at Emerge.
Teresa Martinez coordinates Emerge’s Latino program. She co-leads an ongoing group, an intake group, and a parenting education group for men.
Mark Medina, M.Div. co-led the Gay Men’s group and worked for Emerge for over 8 years. Prior to working at Emerge, Mark worked in family counseling.
Erika Robinson, Ed.M. has been a domestic abuse specialist serving batterer intervention programs in Massachusetts for over 12 years. She currently co-leads three ongoing and one intake group at Emerge as well as co-leading the fatherhood group. Before coming to Emerge, Erika provided counseling and advocacy services for battered women through the Concord, MA police department.
Laurie Van Loon, LICSW is a clinical social worker in Framingham in private practice, with an emphasis on couples therapy, parenting, counseling for abuse survivors and cross-cultural work. Laurie also provides consultation and training on various topics, and is a trainer during our “Is It Abuse?” conference for therapists.
If you would like to speak to any of the above faculty, contact our office by phone at (617) 547-9879 or by e-mail.
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