Gambling harm and domestic and family violence: exploring frameworks for changing men’s behaviour
Tracks
Norfolk & Karrie Webb Room - In Person
| Thursday, December 1, 2022 |
| 11:05 AM - 11:25 AM |
Overview
Joanne Newell & Jody Riordan, Gateway Health Family Safety Team
Speaker
Joanne Newell
Gateway Health
Gambling harm and domestic and family violence: exploring frameworks for changing men’s behaviour
Biography
Joanne Newell
Jo is the Clinical Lead for Gateway Health’s Family Safety Team, supporting both victim/survivors and men’s behaviour change programs. Jo has been working in specialised family and domestic violence (FDV) services for the past 15 years - from crisis response to recovery - in Victoria, South Australia, and New Zealand.
Jo is committed to social justice, human rights and social change which underpins her passion for working towards ending violence, abuse and oppression of women and children. This commitment is also behind her current post graduate studies in her Masters of Social Work.
Jody Riordan
Victorian Responsible Gambling
Gambling harm and domestic and family violence: exploring frameworks for changing men’s behaviour
Abstract
Gambling does not directly cause domestic and family violence (DFV), but gambling problems can exacerbate DFV and its impacts on women and children.
An innovative men’s behaviour change program in Victoria is helping men acknowledge and understand the underlying causes of their violent, controlling or coercive behaviour. Among the underlying causes, the program explores the way gambling intersects with domestic and family violence.
Delivered by Gateway Health, the 20-week Men’s Behaviour Change Program is designed for men required to attend in order to comply with protection orders, as well as men who are ready to acknowledge the effect of their behaviour on their partner, ex-partner, children or other family members.
The inclusion of gambling in the program reflects the known prevalence of gambling as a factor in family violence, in that people who experience gambling related harm are more than twice as likely as people who don’t to be victim/survivors and perpetrators of family violence. The Gateway Health Gambler’s Help team, which is funded by the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, engaged with the team who deliver the Men’s Behaviour Change Program and program participants to co-design a gambling harm module for the program.
The gambling harm module integrates family violence and gambling harm frameworks and theories to help men understand their accountability for their behaviour and what they can do to change it. The themes explored in the module include the intersection of gambling harm and domestic and family violence, sports betting advertising and its representations of male masculinity and disregard for responsibilities and relationships, and behaviour-change models and self-care to improve men’s health and wellbeing.
Join this session to learn more about Gateway Health’s Men’s Behaviour Change Program and its approach to reducing and preventing gambling harm in a domestic and family violence context. Participants will also reflect on how gambling counsellors can better integrate family violence theories and frameworks into their practice when interacting with this group of men.
An innovative men’s behaviour change program in Victoria is helping men acknowledge and understand the underlying causes of their violent, controlling or coercive behaviour. Among the underlying causes, the program explores the way gambling intersects with domestic and family violence.
Delivered by Gateway Health, the 20-week Men’s Behaviour Change Program is designed for men required to attend in order to comply with protection orders, as well as men who are ready to acknowledge the effect of their behaviour on their partner, ex-partner, children or other family members.
The inclusion of gambling in the program reflects the known prevalence of gambling as a factor in family violence, in that people who experience gambling related harm are more than twice as likely as people who don’t to be victim/survivors and perpetrators of family violence. The Gateway Health Gambler’s Help team, which is funded by the Victorian Responsible Gambling Foundation, engaged with the team who deliver the Men’s Behaviour Change Program and program participants to co-design a gambling harm module for the program.
The gambling harm module integrates family violence and gambling harm frameworks and theories to help men understand their accountability for their behaviour and what they can do to change it. The themes explored in the module include the intersection of gambling harm and domestic and family violence, sports betting advertising and its representations of male masculinity and disregard for responsibilities and relationships, and behaviour-change models and self-care to improve men’s health and wellbeing.
Join this session to learn more about Gateway Health’s Men’s Behaviour Change Program and its approach to reducing and preventing gambling harm in a domestic and family violence context. Participants will also reflect on how gambling counsellors can better integrate family violence theories and frameworks into their practice when interacting with this group of men.
Biography
Jody Riordan
Jody is the Coordinator for Gateway Health’s Gambler’s Help Team which provides a suite of services aimed at improving the health and wellbeing of our local community through delivery of prevention, early intervention and support to reduce harm from gambling, taking a public health approach.
For eight years Jody has worked alongside individuals, families, groups, organisations, industry and local governments to take action at a local level to reduce and prevent gambling related harms, driven by her commitment to uphold and respect human rights for social and discrimination justice.
