Healing Through Attachment: Working With Adolescent-to-Mother Violence with a History of DV
Tracks
Room 2: In-Person Only
| Monday, November 24, 2025 |
| 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM |
Overview
Dave Burck, Courage Training and Consulting
Details
1. Learn the theories and research behind adolescent-to-mother violence where there is a history of DV.
2. What to do when working with a family where there is adolescent-to-mother violence
3. How to best support mothers and reduce their shame
Speaker
Dr. Dave Burck
Counsellor
Courage Training and Consulting
Healing Through Attachment: Working With Adolescent-to-Mother Violence with a History of DV
Presentation Overview
In this interactive workshop, you will have a greater understanding of adolescent-to-mother violence (AMV) and have practical interventions to use in your practice. Domestic and family violence (DFV) is a social problem with long-ranging impacts for society and is an issue that has been the focus of research for decades. One aspect of DFV that is a growing area of research and intervention is AMV.
This workshop will explore findings within my PhD, which will shed a light on the lived experience of AMV for young people using violence and mothers who are the targets of violence. We will focus on shame, trauma, the impact of DV on mothering and the belief systems maintaining young people's violence. Most importantly, you will leave this workshop with some interventions you can use in your own practice when working with AMV and DV. We will look at safety, building attachment and reducing shame for women and young people.
This workshop will cover the latest research into AMV and link those findings directly to activities and interventions people can use with young people and women. The workshop itself will be useful for peopple working directly with young people and women within the DV sector, people who work in family support programs, program managers of DV organisations or people interested in learning more about AMV and what they can do to help. Finally, this workshop will focus on how to help people heal from violence, as opposed to focusing on behaviours.
This workshop will explore findings within my PhD, which will shed a light on the lived experience of AMV for young people using violence and mothers who are the targets of violence. We will focus on shame, trauma, the impact of DV on mothering and the belief systems maintaining young people's violence. Most importantly, you will leave this workshop with some interventions you can use in your own practice when working with AMV and DV. We will look at safety, building attachment and reducing shame for women and young people.
This workshop will cover the latest research into AMV and link those findings directly to activities and interventions people can use with young people and women. The workshop itself will be useful for peopple working directly with young people and women within the DV sector, people who work in family support programs, program managers of DV organisations or people interested in learning more about AMV and what they can do to help. Finally, this workshop will focus on how to help people heal from violence, as opposed to focusing on behaviours.
Biography
Dr. Dave Burck has 15 years experience working with children who have experienced DV and young people who use violence. He was also the original co-facilitator / co-author of the ReNew program, which was a program that worked with mothers and sons who experienced DV and sons who used violence in the home. He has completed a PhD thesis on adolescent-to-mother violence entitled: A Silent Shame: Exploring the Lived Experience of Adolescent-to-Mother Violence Where There is a History of Intimate Partner and Family Violence. Dave also provides supervision and training in working with adolescent violence.
