CHCDFV009 Establish change promoting relationship with users of domestic and family violence

Release: 1

CHCDFV009 Establish change promoting relationship with users of domestic and family violence

Modification History

Release	Comments
Release 1	This version was released in CHC Community Services Training Package release 3.0 and meets the requirements of the 2012 Standards for Training Packages. Minimal changes to the elements and performance criteria. New evidence requirements for assessment including volume and frequency requirements. Significant changes to knowledge evidence. Supersedes CHCDFV814B

Application

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to establish the user’s willingness to change, confirm the user’s responsibilities and work respectfully with the user to plan and monitor changes. This relationship creates the context for the intervention and is constructed within a framework that promotes user responsibility, accountability, self-agency and direction towards change while maintaining a focus on the safety of others.

This unit applies to workers who operate with significant autonomy in therapeutic professional service roles in the community sector. The activity is self-directed.

The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian/New Zealand Standards and industry codes of practice.

Elements and Performance Criteria

ELEMENT	PERFORMANCE CRITERIA
Elements define the essential outcomes	Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.
1. Establish willingness to address violent and abusive behaviour	1.1 Analyse existing case information about the user of domestic and family violence as the basis for work 1.2 Use questioning to explore how the user understands and locates the responsibility for their violence and abuse 1.3 Encourage the user of domestic and family violence to recognise the advantages of behaving in ways that are non-violent and non-abusive 1.4 Explore the user’s aspirations for future relationships to examine how their violence undermines fulfilment of those aspirations 1.5 Characterise interactions with the user with respect, honesty and a concern for children and partner safety and in accordance with agency/organisation policies and procedures
2. Establish focus on user’s responsibility for change and conditions for intervention	2.1 Acknowledge and challenge as the focus for change the user’s understanding of the problems their violent and abusive behaviour cause 2.2 Establish a written contract for the intervention which clearly focuses on the user’s responsibility, the potential for change and the priority of the safety of children and partners 2.3 Clarify and agree on expectations for mutually respectful behaviours and use of language, including challenging by the worker
3. Use reflective practice to minimise potential for collusion	3.1 Enact and maintain accountability processes throughout the intervention process 3.2 Recognise, resist and challenge instances provided by the user for collusion 3.3 Examine own practices with the user for their potential to replicate dominant behaviours 3.4 Examine own values and attitudes towards constructions of gender to determine the potential for collusion with the user’s account of their use of violence and abuse 3.5 Maintain processes that ensure gender accountability between workers
4. Establish respectful and safe practices	4.1 Establish and maintain practices and strategies that are sensitive to the user’s experiences in relation to membership of a minority culture or experiences of injustice 4.2 Acknowledge respectfully the user’s experiences of injustice, victimisations, prejudice or discrimination while ensuring that any attribution of causality or responsibility for abusive practices to these experiences is challenged 4.3 Assist the user to seek and acknowledge evidence of respectful, just and equitable values and practices in their culture
5. Provide opportunities for the user to plan, initiate and monitor changes	5.1 Encourage the user to make and implement realistic plans to cease all forms of violent and abusive behaviour 5.2 Provide opportunities for the user to demonstrate their responsible and respectful behaviour 5.3 Encourage the user to establish and maintain active involvement in ongoing networks of support for responsible and respectful behaviour

Foundation Skills

The Foundation Skills describe those required skills (language, literacy, numeracy and employment skills) that are essential to performance.

Foundation skills essential to performance are explicit in the performance criteria of this unit of competency.

Unit Mapping Information

No equivalent unit

Links

Companion Volume implementation guides are found in VETNet - https://vetnet.gov.au/Pages/TrainingDocs.aspx?q=5e0c25cc-3d9d-4b43-80d3-bd22cc4f1e53