SETDAB Lecture Series: Dr Emma Katz, Coercive Control & Children and YP

Thursday 12 December 2024, 13:00 – 14:30, via Microsoft Teams.

Delivered by Dr Emma Katz. 

Target Audience: Frontline workers and managers – those working with victims and families affected by domestic abuse.

Dr Emma Katz, the world’s leading academic expert on how coercive control harms children and mother-child relationships, and how these harms can be overcome.

Dr Katz is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology whose work has influenced legislation and professional practice in the UK and globally.

Her book Coercive Control in Children’s and Mothers’ Lives is influential and acclaimed, as is her expert academic blog Decoding Coercive Control with Dr Emma Katz which is read by thousands of subscribers around the world.

Learning Objectives:

  • To gain an understanding of how the coercive control of perpetrators in families and after separation harms children & young people.
  • To be confident in recognising the protective parenting efforts and strengths of victim-survivor parents.
  • To be aware of how professionals can effectively write about a perpetrator’s coercive control and its harms.
  • To be aware of how professionals can work with children and young people who are victims of coercive control in empowering ways.

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