Mobile Ed: CO301 Counseling Women Affected by Sexual Abuse and Domestic Violence (5 hour course)
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Overview
In Counseling Women Affected by Sexual Abuse and Domestic Violence, Dr. Morven Baker provides Christian counselors with the information and tools they need to effectively minister to female abuse victims. The course begins with a focus on sexual abuse, exploring its effects on children, the behavior and strategies of abusers, family roles and long-term consequences. It then covers domestic abuse, focusing on the impact and cycle of abuse, the reasons for abuse and the character of abusers. Throughout the course Dr. Baker includes tools for the protection and healing of victims, as well as self-care tips for counselors.
Upon successful completion you should be able to:
- Empathize with child victims of sexual abuse
- Explain the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual consequences of abuse
- Recognize behavior patterns of abusers
- Understand why women and children don’t speak out about their abuse
- Provide clients with tools for their protection and healing
Introduction
- Introducing the Speaker and the Course
Unit 1: Sexual Abuse
- Objectives for Sexual Abuse Unit
- Sexual Abuse Statistics
- Childhood Trauma
- Defining Child Sexual Abuse
- Gray Areas
- Expanded Definition of Incest
- Celebrities Who Have Reported Abuse
- Myths and Facts about Sexual Abuse (Part 1)
- Myths and Facts about Sexual Abuse (Part 2)
- Why Report Sexual Abuse?
- Incest Families
- Family Secrets
- How to Protect Your Children
- Emotional Triggers
- Early Body Responses
- Disassociation
- High Risk Children
- Effects of Trauma
- Long-Term Consequences
- Trauma of Treatment
- Treating Trauma Victims Well
- Helping Clients Feel Safe, Empowered
- Advice for Care Providers
- God’s Image: Amnon and Tamar
- Restoring God’s Image to Victims
- Feminine Side of God
- Common Misperceptions of Forgiveness
- Defining Forgiveness
- Where Is God in Abusive Moments?
Unit 2: Domestic Abuse
- Objectives for Domestic Abuse Unit
- Definitions of Abuse
- Domestic Abuse Statistics
- Celebrities and Domestic Abuse
- Teens and Domestic Abuse
- Why Do Men Batter?
- Effects on Children
- Cost of Abuse to the Economy
- Cycle of Abuse
- Charmers (Part 1)
- Charmers (Part 2)
- Abuse Victim as Prisoner of War
- Myths and Facts about Domestic Abuse
- Abuse in the Faith Community
- Common Untruths Taught to Women
- Bible Errors Empowering Abusers
- Healthy Relationships
- Domestic Violence in Jacob’s Story (Part 1)
- Domestic Violence in Jacob’s Story (Part 2)
- Helping the Victims in Front of You
- Making a Personal Safety Plan
- Christian Response to Domestic Violence
- Domestic Violence Case Study
- Charmer Case Study
- Spouses of Survivors
- Healing Exercise
- Amish Story
- Self-Care for Counselors
Conclusion
- Women Get Better
- Title: CO301 Counseling Women Affected by Sexual Abuse and Domestic Violence
- Instructor: Morven R. Baker
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Publication Date: Forthcoming
- Product Type: Logos Mobile Education
- Resource Type: Courseware, including transcripts, audio, and video resources
- Courses: 1
- Video Hours: 5
Dr. Morven R. Baker, DMin, PCC-S, NCC, has over 20 years of counseling experience in both institutional and private practice settings. In 2005 she founded the Ashland Women’s Counseling Center, an institution seeking to provide resources to women and those who care for them. Dr. Baker’s efforts deal with a wide range of issues faced by women but primarily with issues arising from sexual abuse and domestic abuse, and the center aims to provide a safe setting for girls and women in need.
Dr. Baker is a popular speaker and teacher, having taught classes and delivered lectures and workshops in the United States and abroad. Topics of her classes and workshops have included aspects of sexual abuse, counseling, and forgiveness. Dr. Baker has contributed to Long Journey Home: Understanding and Ministering to the Sexually Abused (edited by Andrew J. Schmutzer) and More Light on the Path: Daily Scripture Readings in Hebrew and Greek (Baker Publishing Group).
Logos Mobile Education is a highly effective cross-platform learning environment that integrates world class teaching with the powerful study tools and theological libraries available in Logos Bible Software. Every course provides links to additional resources and suggested readings that supplement the lecture material at the end of every transcript segment.
This course was produced with screencast videos. These videos provide tutorials showing you how to use Logos Bible Software in ways that are tied directly into the content of the course. We are now producing Activities resources as a replacement for screencast videos. We plan on updating this course to include this additional Activities resource in the future for no extra charge.