Name: Domestic Abuse and Mental Health Training
Start: 2026-06-30T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-06-30T17:00:00+01:00
Location: York St John University

Domestic Abuse and Mental Health Training

Learn how to help and support others in situations that need your guidance and assistance in this one day Domestic Abuse and Mental Health course.
Exposure to domestic violence has a significant impact on individual's mental health. Discover the psychological theories of domestic abuse and the reasons for it leading to effect a person's mental health. You will learn how to positively support an individual and what you can do to assist the person’s mental health recovery process.
✳️ Who is this course for?
Designed for anyone working with people who have been effected by domestic abuse, this one-day session is your gateway to understanding and aiding those affected by domestic abuse.
✳️ How will I learn?
The workshop will bring together a combination of theory, practice and case studies within the sessions, together with group work and personal reflection.
✳️ What will I learn?
Experiences of abuse can have a lasting impact on a person’s self-confidence and self-esteem, ability to make decisions, and trust in others, as well as generating symptoms of depression, high anxiety, complex trauma, and thoughts of suicide. This can severely impact on a person’s ability to seek support. This course will explore the main psychological theories of domestic abuse, how abuse happens, why and how this affects an individual’s mental health, and what can be done to positively support the person’s mental health recovery.
*️⃣ Duration: 1 day
*️⃣ Course fees: £110 per person, £75 concession rate (York St John Counselling students and York St John Communities Centre placement students. There will be a cap of 3 concession places available for each date that the course runs).
*️⃣ Course leader: Dr Jeannette Roddy, PhD
✴️ Enquire now
To express an interest in this course, please fill in the online form with your details and we will be in touch soon: https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/courses/professional-and-short-courses/counselling/domestic-abuse-and-mental-health/

***Testimonials***
“I highly recommend the training. It was an incredible learning experience.”
“Jeannette’s knowledge and insight into the subject was incredibly useful and thought provoking.”
“It felt relational, inciteful and delivered with compassion and honestly.”
“It was really useful to gain further understanding of Domestic Abuse, its theory, how it can happen, and the impact on mental health. I went away with greater understanding and more awareness to my own personal reflections on the subject area too.”