Violence

Adam Jukes, psychotherapist and group psychoanalyst and author of a number of influential books and papers about male violence and abuse was the next speaker.

 
Why men do it.

How can we stop them?

Can it be achieved?
 

Adam Jukes believe that domestic violence is not pathological or a sickness but is about control and domination so works starts by telling the men they are in charge and in charge of the process.

There are three clinical issues using the Domino theory.

NARCASTIC WOUND

INJUSTICE

MAD HYPOTETIST

 

 Violent men always have this sense of injustice so by using therapy they learn to accept it, knowing it will never go away. Working through this rationale, men learn to control their violent urges.

 

Detective Constable Dave Johnson was the third speaker. He has worked for five years as a domestic violence officer and was responsible for writing policies and practices, which have been adopted around Merseyside and adapted for use around the UK. He worked with youth offenders for 12 years completing home visits where he frequently came away thinking to himself: -

 

-Those parents have no idea how to parent, and

-Who is the parent in that home?

 

For the last year his remit has been to work with children who abuse their parents or carer. Before starting this work there was a common assumption that this problem did not exist yet now Detective Constable Johnson has three referrals a day in the Wirral. According to his findings, child to parent abuse is present in a vast majority of cases going through the court system.

The symptoms of child to adult abusers are: -


1)     Disorder attachment: these children can be risk accessed as young as three in nursery.

2)     Feeling of injustice: i.e. failure to achieve and through learned behaviour turn to bullying and violence

3)     Violence: this gives them the desired result.

4)     Repeat offenders: Because of their behaviour these young people are thrown out of their homes and offend while on the street or in care.

5)     Truancy: Many people who truant, experience or are the perpetrator of domestic violence.