Description
December 17, 2025 | 9:00am-12:00pm
Virtual via Zoom
Description:
Survivors of domestic violence (DV) experience a higher rate of mental health challenges such as depression, anxiety, and PTSD. It is therefore imperative that behavioral health practitioners understand DV, including how to recognize and respond to victim-survivors in a professional setting. In this interactive training, experts from BWJP (the Battered Women’s Justice Project) will give participants an overview of the nature and dynamics of DV and its prevalence, discuss how victim-survivors of DV may present to behavior health practitioners, and prepare practitioners to respond to and document DV within their roles.
Objectives:
By the end of this training, attendees will be able to:
• Describe the dynamics of DV and how a victim-survivor may present in a behavioral health setting.
• Share data about the prevalence of DV its effect on victim-survivors’ mental health.
• Identify the ways in which DV victim-survivors may present in healthcare settings.
• Document DV in an appropriate and accurate manner.
Presenter:
Sujata Warrier, Ph.D., has been working in the field of gender-based violence in the US and internationally for over 40 years including in her current role as Chief Strategy Officer at BWJP; before that, Dr. Warrier was Director of the NYC Program of the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence.
Annie Struby, Esq., is an attorney and Project Director for the National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and Firearms. Annie has more than 20 years of experience working to prevent and respond to domestic and sexual violence, including 14 years leading coordinated community response efforts in Kansas City, Missouri.
Contact hours:
3 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals
3 category I contact hours for psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
3 contact hours for drug and alcohol counselors. This course has been approved by CCSME, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 6 educational credits. NAADAC Provider #324712. CCSME is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
3 contact hours for CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
