Managing Substance Use Disorder in Partner Abuse Intervention Programs
About This Event:
This 2 hour zoom presentation will: (1) review background research linking substance use disorder (SUD) in partner abuse intervention program participants; (2) identify key explanations of those SUD-IPV links, emphasizing the perfect storm model, culturally-based excuses, and expectancy.
Finally, we will talk about drunkenness as both a key coercive tool used by people who batter and a key predictor of DV re-offense. We then turn to the basic questions of assessment of SUD in PAIP: (1) whose job is it to provide the assessment, how, and when? (2) what institutional policies and tools are in place to guide assessment and intervention? and (3) if the PAIP-providing institution does not have in-house SUD treatment capabilities, what policies and tools guide robust referral and coordination with the SUD institution? We will then look at serial, parallel, integrated, and coordinated approaches to linking SUD and PAIP interventions, including implementation issues with each. The focus will then shift to resources available for helping PAIP manage these admittedly complex issues. Time for questions will follow.
Participants can identify key evidence-based dynamics linking SUD and partner abuse.
Participants understand the dynamic role that drunkenness plays in intimate coercion.
Participants can locate their institutional approach to SUD/PAIP intervention as serial, parallel, integrated, or coordinated, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of that approach.
Participants can access on-line and other published resources for managing co-occurring IPV and SUD
About Your Facilitator:
Larry Bennett began in the social service field in 1973 and received his Ph.D.in 1990. He has worked in community mental health, substance abuse and violence prevention, and youth service institutions. Beginning in 1985 he also practiced social work independently, focusing his last 20 years of independent practice on court-ordered child custody evaluations in contested divorces. His focus on gender violence began in 1978 and in 1985 he co-founded the Partner Abuse Intervention Program at Turning Point in Woodstock IL, a program which continues to this day. Between 1988 and 2020 he served as Professor of Social Work at Carthage College, the University of Illinois Chicago, and Indiana University South Bend, teaching courses in mental health practice, family violence, single case evaluation, research methods, and statistics. He has authored 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, including outcome findings from the Chicago Multisite Study of 30 PAIP (Bennett, Stoops, Call, & Flett, 2007). He is also co-author of Evaluation of services for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault (Sage Press). He retired from direct practice following his and Durie’s move to Michigan in 2012.