How to Start Your Career in Family Violence Support

Students who have completed the Advanced Certificate in Domestic Violence Support can go on to work in a variety of different roles within the DV sector. Depending on your specific interests and skills, you may find yourself working in roles such as counselling, case management, working in shelters or refuges, and more. 

Counselling for impacted individuals and families is a key aspect of support work. This can entail supporting impacted people with decision making, planning, and action, as well as crisis counselling. There are many refuges (or other emergency accommodation services), non-for-profit organisations, and support organisations in which this type of work is in high demand.

Indeed, work in emergency accommodation for affected individuals and families – such as in refuges – is another popular path for support workers. Work in this type of space can entail providing and managing emergency resources, providing access to further support such as counselling services, legal aid, and other support organisations. 

Students can also pursue careers in case management within the DV sector. This entails more specialised and personalised support, working with particular cases where families or individuals have been affected by domestic violence. This work involves risk and need assessments of specific cases, and the development, implementation, and review of support plans. 

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Core Modules

• Communication Patterns in Relationships
• Influences on Relating Behaviour and PBL
• Understanding Methods of Crisis Intervention
• Ethical, Professional and Legal Issues
• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
• Violence and Sexual Assault
• Crisis and Drug Addiction
• Family Crises
• Nature and Scope of Anger
• Managing Anger with Counselling
• Managing Anger with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Anger Management Techniques for Violence
• Anger Management for People with Mental Health Issues
• Managing Anger in Children and Adolescents

Career Opportunities 

This certificate opens up the gateway for you to seek employment in various businesses, either as a/an:

• Domestic and Family Violence Support Worker
• Community Outreach Support
• Crisis Counselling
• Relationship Counselling
• Telephone Counselling
• Youth and Adolescent Mental Health
• Case Worker
• Emergency Response/Referral Practitioner
• Team Leader
• Working in Women, Children and Men’s Shelters/Emergency Accommodation/Crisis Centres

At Courses4Me, our courses are delivered 100% online and can be completed in your own time with our self-paced models. We endeavour to support our students to reach their personal and professional goals through the completion of our accredited courses designed by industry experts.

If you are still interested in our Advanced Certificate of Domestic and Family Violence, enrolments are now open and can be completed over the phone. Our business hours are 9:00am-8:00pm.

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