Coercive Control w/ Dr Emma Katz

Welcome to Association of Child Protection Professionals' Podcast, a weekly podcast where we, alongside guest hosts, share with you the latest in child and family news.This episode is a Special Episode. In these special episodes, we take a more focused look at a singular issue that professionals working with children and families need to know about. These are often specific and urgent – so we’ll be talking with a professional at the forefront of the issue.In today's episode, Steve Myers, Trustee at the AoCPP, talks to Dr Emma Katz about her research into Coercive Control.Dr Emma Katz is a leading research specialist in the harms caused by perpetrators to mothers and children in the context of domestic abuse. She is a Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Youth at Liverpool Hope University and has won multiple awards for her research, including the Corinna Seith Prize, awarded by Women Against Violence Europe in 2016.Emma has also written for our academic journal the Child Abuse Review. Her most recent article, ‘When Coercive Control Continues to Harm Children: Post‐Separation Fathering, Stalking and Domestic Violence’, is now available to read and download, as is her 2016 article ‘Beyond the Physical Incident Model: How Children Living with Domestic Violence are Harmed by and Resist Regimes of Coercive Control’, which is one of our journal’s most viewed articles to date. Alongside these, Emma is releasing a book titled ‘Coercive Control in Children’s and Mothers’ Lives’ which will be published in 2021 by Oxford University Press.Steve Myers is Director of Social Sciences at the University of Salford. He is a qualified and registered Social Worker with a background in child protection and youth justice. He has worked in both statutory and voluntary organisations and has been involved with the education and training of Social Workers in Higher Education for the past 25 years.Steve has researched and written about strengths-based and solution focused practice, and has an interest in working with violent behaviour including sexual violence. He is keen to promote interprofessional CPD for child protection professionals and has developed and delivered several programmes to support this.Would you like to learn more from this discussion? If you are a member, you can access Dr Katz's articles in the Child Abuse Review online via Wiley....Did you know you can access AoCPP resources for free over the next few months?The AoCPP is offering a free membership trial between until the 31st of August this year.We realise that the next few months will continue to put pressure on child protection professionals, particularly those working on the frontline, and that is why we’re opening our resources to as many of you as possible. To sign up for your free membership and for more information go to childprotectionprofessionals.org.uk/join...For those listening in the future, this episode is being recorded and published while the UK (and the world) is deep in the throes of the COVID19 pandemic. Many frontline professionals are finding themselves overworked, time poor and confused as government guidance is changing daily. To alleviate the pressure child protection professionals are under, we have created the AoCPP Podcast, which will provide support to these professionals who continue to serve our country, its vulnerable children, and families, in unprecedented circumstances....Find us at:childprotectionprofessionals.org.ukTwitter: @AoCPPTweetFacebook: The Association of Child Protection ProfessionalsEmail: [email protected] out more about Dr Emma Katz at: https://www.hope.ac.uk/si/dr-emma-katz.htmlFind out more about Steve at: https://www.salford.ac.uk/health-and-society/our-staff/health-and-society-academics/cxs115 or Music by Alexander King. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.