The Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Families and Resources for Healing
Presented By:
The Southern Chapter of NJAMFT
October 24th at the Mansion in Voorhees
Presenters and Topics:
- Dr. Jan Puig and Dr. Ange Puig: Assessing & Intervening in Interpersonal Partner Violence:Challenges & Strategies
- Linda Burkett: Assistance for Victims of Domestic Violence: Interrupting the Cycle, Providing Services to the Victim and her/his Children,and Holding Offenders Accountable
- Dr. Angelle Richardson: An Attachment Focused Approach to the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on the Children Who Witness the Violence
The Mansion 3000 Main Street, Voorhees NJ 08043 (8:00 AM to 4:00 PM)
6 Continuing Education Credits provided for MFTs and LPCs
Dr. Jan Puig is a certified school psychologist, registered play therapist, licensed marriage and family therapist, and licensed psychologist in the state of New Jersey as well as having completed the training and consultation program via NJ State for juvenile sex offenders’ treatment. She has been the past president locally and statewide for the NJ American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (AAMFT). She is also an MFT Supervisor and has served on National AAMFT committees. She has provided expert consultation for SAMHSA, is a member of the Center for Outreach and Services for the Autism Community (COSAC), is a volunteer for NAMI-NJ (National Alliance for Mentally Ill) and also provides consultation and services for the Developmentally Disabled (DD) and Intellectually Disabled (ID). Dr. Puig’s practice focuses upon children, families, adults and couples as well as persons with chronic illnesses, is trauma-specific integrating EMDR, play, and sand tray therapies. She works with a number of community agencies providing in-office consultation around issues of child abuse, school adjustment issues and parenting concerns.
Dr. Ange Puig earned his doctoral degree in Psychology in 1979 from Columbia University. He provides professional training on workplace violence, mental health juvenile justice issues, critical incident stress debriefing, and fitness for duty evaluations. He provides consultation, supervision and training for a number of South Jersey programs involving Children and for the Veterans Center in Ewing, NJ. An Adjunct Professor at Chestnut Hill College who is teaching in the Trauma Graduate Studies. He is an adjunct professor at Widener University teaching a course on Addictive disorders and Clinical Interventions in the graduate clinical psychology program. Dr. Puig is the past board President for the Prevention Plus Burlington County: Addictions Prevention Programs; and past President of the Mental Health Association of Southwestern New Jersey. He served as a member on Acting Governor Codey’s Mental Health Task Force in 2005 for the Children’s Committee. He has an APA College Certificate of Proficiency in the treatment of Alcohol & Substance Use Disorders. His practice specialty focuses on areas such as assessment of parenting capacity, trauma specific therapeutic intervention, Strengths –based clinical approaches and clinical supervision, risk assessments for high risk families involving substance use disorders and abuse, and psychological services for law enforcement agencies.
Learning Objectives:
• To become familiar with the clinical pathway to Interpersonal Violence.• To be able to do early identification of Interpersonal Violence risk situations for both for abused and/or abuser
• Understand the cycle of Interpersonal Violence and the role of Complex Trauma.• Identify Intervention tools and resources
• To better understand the acute and long term effects on Interpersonal Violence upon children in the family system
• To become familiar with ways children experience the effects of witnessing domestic violence
• Understand the importance of sensory-motor activities when treating children who witnessed domestic violence
• Identify tools utilized with children and their families.
Linda Burkett has served as the Victim Witness Coordinator for the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office since 1987. As Section Chief of the Victim/Witness Unit, she supervises a staff of seven victim advocates and two administrative employees. She and her staff assist, inform and accompany victims of crime in Camden County as their cases proceed through the Criminal Justice System, ensuring that they are treated with compassion and respect, that they understand and avail themselves of their rights under the law, and that any needs resulting from their victimization are addressed.
Ms. Burkett received her bachelor’s degree in Elementary and Special Education from The George Washington University and her masters’ degree in Criminal Justice at St. Joseph’s University in Criminal Justice with a concentration in Restorative Justice. She is an instructor at the Camden and Gloucester County Police Academies. She has served as chairperson of the NJ Prosecutors’ Victim Witness Association, the NJ Association of Crime Victim Advocates, and the NJ Victim Witness Coordinators’ Association. She facilitates monthly meetings of the Camden County Domestic Violence Working Group. As part of Camden County’s Mental Health Emergency Response Team, Ms. Burkett and her team from the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office’s Victim Witness Unit respond to communities and schools in crisis following a criminal incident or other traumatic loss.
Learning Objectives:
• To understand the responsibility of law enforcement in responding to incidents of domestic violence
• To learn about services available in Municipal Police Departments through Domestic Violence Response Teams
• To identify services provided to victims in County Prosecutor’s Offices
• To learn about resources available to domestic violence victims for their protection
• To appreciate the limitations of the law, service providers and resources in working with victims of domestic abuse.
Dr. Angelle E. Richardson LPC, is the Founder and Director of Extended Hearts Family Therapy. She holds a Doctorate in Couple and Family Therapy from Drexel University, a Masters in Counseling from Rider University, and is also a licensed professional counselor. Dr. Richardson has experience providing therapy to individuals, couples, and families, and specializes in working with adolescents. She has worked with individuals and families who have been affected by adoption, foster care, and addiction, as well as with young people who have experienced school and behavioral problems. Dr. Richardson is certified in the Beck Model of Cognitive Therapy through the University of Pennsylvania, and is also trained in Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She has conducted numerous workshops on bullying, self-esteem, and attachment, including a presentation at the 2013 American Family Therapy Academy (AFTA) Conference on Parenting Children with Broken Attachments. Dr. Richardson’s research on female adoptees’ post-relationship experiences with both biological and adoptive mothers was published in the Journal of Marital and Family Therapy. Dr. Richardson is an experienced therapist and has experience helping individuals and families negotiate the difficult emotions of grief, loss, anger and frustration. She enjoys helping families find a way to rebuild their connections and move toward a better future
Learning Objectives:
• Understand how intimate partner violence affects children’s ability to develop secure attachments.
• Learn children’s responses to trauma.
• Identify tools to screen for trauma in children.
• Identify attachment focused strategies for working with children who have witnessed intimate partner violence
Workshop Schedule
8:00 – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast, Registration, Networking
8:30 - 10:00 a.m. Dr. Jan Puig and Dr. Ange Puig: Assessing & Intervening in Interpersonal Partner Violence: Challenges & Strategies
10:00 – 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15 – 11:45 a.m. Assessing & Intervening in Interpersonal Partner Violence”
11:45 - 12:45 Lunch
12:45 – 2:15 p.m. Linda Burkett “Assistance for Victims of Domestic Violence: Interrupting the Cycle, Providing Services to the Victim and Her/His Children, and Holding Offenders Accountable
2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Break
2:30– 4:00 p.m. Dr. Angelle Richardson “An Attachment Focused Approach to the Impact of Intimate Partner Violence on the Children Who Witness the Violence
4:00 p.m. End of Conference, Evaluations