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"Domestic Violence and General Criminality Clients shall meet the following required competencies related to Domestic Violence and General "Criminality generally refers to behavior that violates established criminal laws or the state or quality of being a criminal"
Criminality:
1. Define all types of domestic violence and abusive behavior (reference working clinical definition of domestic violence) and demonstrates acceptance of accountability and responsibility for offending and abusive behaviors.8
Questions: Accountability versus Responsbility: "While often used interchangeably, responsibility refers to the obligation to do the work, while accountability is the ultimate ownership of the outcome. You can delegate responsibility to others, but you can never delegate accountability" (According to AI).
2. Identify the history of current and former patterns of domestic violence behaviors and thought regarding onset, frequency, and persistence. This includes awareness and discuss the intent of previous grooming tactics.9
DV Behaviors, Patterns of Behaviors, Onset of DV, DV Behaviors, Frequency and Persisetence. Plus Intent and Grooming Tactics.
Discussion Point: Clients may invoke their 5th Amendment right for current or pending cases. While Approved Providers shall not unsuccessfully discharge an offender from treatment solely for refusing to answer incriminating questions, a treatment provider may opt to discharge a client from treatment or not accept a client into treatment if the provider determines a factor(s) exists that compromises the therapeutic process.
3. Identify and challenge cognitive distortions and belief systems that plays a negative or unhealthy role in the client’s thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
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Discussion Point: The research on the intrinsic factors that motivate a client’s offending behaviors and attitudes is still emerging. Approved Providers are encouraged to explore the underlying sources " of offending. This May include specific personality traits or disorders, certain types of cognitive
schemas, and other considerations.
4. Recognize and manage dynamic risk factors and adaptive skills to mitigate those risk factors.
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The following potential competencies may be required when clinically indicated for General criminality:
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• Recognize and manage current procriminal attitudes and behaviors.
• Identify, acknowledge, and manage use of mood-altering substances.
• Identify the history of current and former pro-criminal behaviors, thoughts, and associates
Self-Regulation and Self-Care
Clients shall meet the following required competencies related to Self-Regulation and Self-Care:
5. Demonstrate and implement self-regulation skills to include but not limited to emotional regulation,
stress management, communication skills, anger management, conflict resolution, problem solving,
delayed gratification, parental and financial responsibility, etc.
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6. Demonstrate the ability to discuss past experiences and how any unresolved trauma may impact
offending behavior as a way to adopt effective coping strategies.14
Discussion Point: The goal of this competency is to understand how past experiences have impacted
the client and what ways they can deal with these issues differently in non-abusive ways.
7. Develop and maintain prosocial activities and networks to include but not limited to completing
education, maintaining employment, obtaining stable housing, life skills, recreational and social
activities, etc.
15 The following potential competencies may be required when clinically indicated for the client to meet:
• Identify, acknowledge, and manage mental health needs and the development of supports.
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• Identify, acknowledge, and manage the need for crisis management and stabilization (i.e. suicidal or
homicidal ideation, housing insecurity, client decompensation).
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• Identify, acknowledge, and manage their own reintegration into the community.
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• Identify, acknowledge, and manage boundaries.
• Identify and promote healthy sexual behavior, intimacy, and relationship skills.
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• Increase ability to recognize attachment issues.
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Survivor Impact and Community Safety
Clients shall meet the following required competencies related to Survivor Impact and Community Safety:
8. Demonstrate insight about the impact of their domestic violence offense on all individuals and
promote victim empathy when clinically indicated.
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Discussion Point: Demonstration of this competency regarding the impact of a domestic violence
offense can include, but is not limited to accountability letters, victim empathy panels, and
surrogate offender and victim dialogue. Opportunities for any therapeutic work between the client and the identified victim or secondary victims may be done after the client has completed domestic
violence offender treatment during aftercare.
9. Increase understanding of how intergenerational patterns of family, peer group, community, and
culture can normalize domestic violence and foster attitudes and responses that condone and
tolerate domestic violence.22
10. Develop and implement safety plans to address risk factors and potentially high-risk situations.
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11. Cooperate with supervision requirements, court orders, and the terms and conditions.
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The following potential competencies may be required when clinically indicated for the client to:
• Increase understanding and demonstration of parental responsibility to enhance and ensure the
wellbeing of the children.
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Discussion Point: If the offender has abused any pregnant partner, this may need to be addressed as an
additional competency. In such cases, the client should demonstrate an understanding and insight that
abuse during pregnancy may present a higher risk to the victim and unborn child.
-- Sample DRAFT Questions from Upcoming Core Competencies Exam:
1. The core competencies for domestic violence offender treatment are essentially a list of Concepts, facts, and skills that a person who has a DV offense should probably learn about in order to help them prevent domestic violence in the future.
True or false
2. The core competencies for domestic violence offenders and treatment in Colorado are intended to help a person keep from doing any more harm to the person or people who were victims, or could become victims and another domestic violence offense has committed by this person who already has a domestic violence offense.
True or False
3. My personal change plan essentially includes themes, ideas and expressions of commitment that could help me develop and improve on ways that I could prevent domestic violence in the future.
True or False
4. I have a pretty good ideas of how my domestic violence related thinking and behavior negatively impacted the life, or lives of the victim(s) of my DV Offense.
True or False
5. Mastering your core competencies can help a person too improve their life, improve their relationships decrease the possibility of having another DV type offence, and possibly even help improve the lives of others.
True or False
6. The main reason for domestic violence treatment is to thoroughly punish the person who committed the domestic violence.
True or false
7. One primary reason for domestic violence treatment is to help a person who has previously committed domestic violence to be better able to prevent domestic violence in the future.
True or false
8. One of the reasons for domestic violence offender treatment is to help make potential domestic violence victims safer.
True or False
9. The main reason for domestic violence treatment is to help domestic violence victims feel better by making domestic violence offenders suffer.
True or False
10. Intimidation, psychological cruelty, and/or coercion toward one's partner or children is not necessarily abusive.
True or False
11. Demonstrating change in one's thinking and behavior is a primary reason for consistently attending domestic violence treatment sessions.
True or False
12. Demonstrating how a DV Offender is making positive changes is one of the main purposes of completing a comprehensive personal change plan.
True or False
13. A good personal change plan helps a person show that they are committed to preventing domestic violence in their lives in the future?
True or False
14. It is important for a person with a domestic violence offense to be able to understand his or her Risk Factors for committing another domestic violence event.
True or False
15. There are two different types of risk factors for domestic violence; static and dynamic. Static Risk Factors are things that one cannot change such as their criminal history or some of their personal characteristics such as the color of their skin; or whether or not they have a history of drug or alcohol abuse. Where as dynamic risk factors are risk factors a person can change like whether or not they continue to drink alcohol or use drugs.
True or False
16. It's perfectly okay to threaten one's partner for certain things as long as one does not physically hit them unless of course they did something real serious like cheat on them.
True or False
17. It's typically okay for one to physically correct ones wife or husband as long as one does not hit them hard enough to leave a bruise or break the skin.
True or False
18. Typically a person can just stop being abusive overnight. It's just a matter of making a decision.
True or False
19. Working on abuse related issues and monitoring them is an ongoing process. It generally takes learning some new information such as how to spot abuse and one's own thinking and behavior, trying to make some needed changes, monitoring progress, and sticking to it as the process unwinds.
True or False
20. Coercion is just another non-abusive way of convincing somebody of something.
True or False
