Scientific Programme Queen’s University Belfast 6th-9th September 2015 http://www.qub.ac.uk/sites/ECDV2015/ This programme may be subject to some minor changes

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Sunday 6th September 2015 16.00 Opening Remarks Plenary 1

Whitla Hall Chair: Annie Campbell, Chief Executive, Women’s Aid Federation Northern Ireland

Whitla Hall

16.30 Keynote 1: Monica McWilliams “Transforming the responses to domestic violence in a politically contested environment” 17.15 Keynote 2: Marius Råkil: “How can we improve the quality and effectiveness of therapeutic work with perpetrators of domestic violence? The development of treatment for perpetrating men in Europe, with a special focus on Norway” 18.00 Reception and Welcome from Senior University Member of Staff 19.30 Finish

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Great Hall

Monday 7th September 2015 Plenary 2

Chair: Davina James-Hanman, Associate Consultant, AVA, England

09.00

Opening Remarks

09.05

The Voice of a Survivor

09.15

Invited Guest 1: Senior representative from the Department of Justice, Northern Ireland

09.30

Keynote 3: Sylvia Walby “The changing rate of domestic violence”

10.15

Refreshment Break

10.45

Parallel Session A Symposium 1

Whitla Hall

Room: Bell Lecture Theatre

Challenges in implementing evidence based support to children exposed to domestic violence 1. Implementation of routine enquiry about intimate partner violence, child abuse and structured risk/safety assessments in social services and child mental health: findings from a national project in Sweden. Ole Hultmann and Karin Röbäck de Souza 2. Notions of risk, risk assessment and children’s treatment needs, and the implementation of systematic risk assessment. Maria Eriksson and Karin Röbäck de Souza 3. Implementing the American Kid’s Club for children exposed to domestic violence in the Swedish social services. Åsa Cater and Sabina Gomez Jansson Symposium 2 Gender and Power: Moving from research to practice

Room: Canada Room and Council Chamber

1. Resisting violence and promoting resilience: Gender, power and mothering in the context of intimate partner violence. Kendra Nixon 2. Re-imagining the concept of gender for theory and research on intimate partner violence, Melissa Corbally and Judy Hughes 3. Understanding power in couples with a history of violence. Diane Hiebert-Murphy and Janice Ristock 3

Oral Paper 1 Approaches to the Measurement of Domestic Violence

Room: Larmour Lecture Theatre

1. “Even ‘daily’ is not enough”: How well do we measure domestic violence and abuse? A think aloud study of a commonly used self-report scale. Maggie Evans, Emma Howarth, Alison Gregory, Kelsey Hegarty and Gene Feder 2. The gender controversy in intimate partner violence: New self-report measures that do not produce gender symmetry (and why). Sherry Hamby 3. Assessing the co-occurrence of intimate partner violence domains across the life-course: relating typologies to mental health. Cherie Armour and Emma Sleath 4. Longitudinal measurement of cortisol with domestic violence and mental health. Natalia Lewis, Stafford Lightman, Richard Morris, Victoria Powers and Gene Feder Oral Paper 2 Legal Responses to Domestic Violence

Room: Senate Room

1. Assisting victims of domestic violence to retrieve personal property in former homes: An evaluation of guidelines, routines, documents used by social services in Sweden. Sanja Magdalenić, Åsa Borén and Dick Lindberg 2. Statistical report on alternative dispute resolution methods used in criminal offenses and misdemeanours regarding violence against women cases in Buenos Aires City courts (2013/2014). Marta Paz and Sebastian Brian Lowry 3. “Welcome to the Family Laws Court Casino…” – where the Judge isn’t the most powerful person of adjudication and where Court professionals arbitrarily ‘play around and gamble’ with the rights of women and children especially when domestic abuse or sexual abuse is alleged. Colm Dempsey 4. Domestic violence and abuse: Legal remedies. Belfast Area Domestic Violence Partnership Oral Paper 3 New Understandings of Domestic Violence

Room: 6 College Park 01/035

1. Developing an Islamically grounded framework for combating domestic violence. Iman Sandra Pertek and Michelle Gyeney 2. The same old story across borders? Intimate partner violence against women in Portugal and Albania. Joana Aguiar Patricio 3. Contribution of life course theory to the understanding of domestic violence. Annie Dumont and Geneviève Lessard 4. This is domestic violence too: unregulated internet sperm ‘donors’ and violence against women trying to conceive, during pregnancy and in the postpartum period. Claire McQuoid.

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Oral Paper 4 Prevention and Intervention Strategies

Room: Emeleus Lecture Theatre

1. The work of the new European membership organisation of work with perpetrators of domestic violence and the challenges of this work across Europe. Neil Blacklock and Ralf Puchert 2. Preventing domestic abuse in universities: The Intervention Initiative. Helen Mott, Rachel Fenton, Kieran McCartan, Phil Rumney and Don Webber 3. Preventing and responding to domestic abuse in workplaces: The 16 Days of Action Toolkit Justin Varney and Melissa Morbeck 4. Effective intervention with perpetrators: Therapeutically informed strengths-based work with domestically abusive men. Mark Farrall Oral Paper 5 Empowerment

Room: Old Staff Common Room

1. Sisterhood and professional counselling in women’s shelters and public sector IPV programs in Sweden: Feminism and professionalism as two competing or interwoven discourses? Sara Helmersson 2. Repositioning women – from blameworthy and ‘part of the problem’ to active resisters of ‘the problem’. Glenda Dixon and Rob Andrew 3. Practice to research: Findings, challenges, successes and lessons learned from evaluating the MOVE (Mothers Overcoming Violence through Education and Empowerment) Program. Rebecca Macy 4. “I look across from me and I see me”: survivors as advocates. Leila Wood Oral Paper 6 Honour Based Violence

Room: 6 College Park 0G/026

1. Domestic Violence and Honour Based Violence: The Canadian Context. Estibaliz Jimenez and Marie-Marthe Cousineau 2. Universalism – cultural relativism debate in Germany in cases of honour related killings against women who originated from Turkey. Sevinc Eryilmaz 3. Honour related violence and shelters for children. Mehrdad Darvishpour 4. Police identification of honour-based abuse in England and Wales. Lis Bates

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Workshop 1 Sharing the inspirational forced marriage model Sameen Ali

Room: 6 College Park 01/037

Workshop 2 Protection, Provision, Prevention: An overview of Women’s Aid support services in Northern Ireland Sarah Mason and Sonya McMullan Room: Newark Room Workshop 3 How can we guard against the potential negative effects of therapeutic intervention with intimate partner violence perpetrators? Tony McGinn, Brian Taylor and Mary McColgan Room: Lanyon/0G/049 Workshop 4 Raise the status of families after domestic homicide: meaningful family involvement in domestic homicide reviews Frank Mullane and Cath Kane Room: Great Hall 12.15

Lunch Plenary 3

Chair: Liz Kelly, Professor of Sexualised Violence at London Metropolitan University

13.00

Invited Contribution Voice Against Violence

13.15

Keynote 4 Gene Feder: “Health Care responses to domestic violence: end of the beginning?”

14.00

Movement time

14.15

Parallel Session B Symposium 3 Domestic violence and health: Prevalence and mental health impacts

Whitla Hall

Room: Great Hall

1. Experience and prevalence of domestic violence in people with mental illness. Louise Howard, Kylee Trevillion, Sian Oram and Gene Feder 2. Mental illness and perpetration of domestic violence. Sian Oram, Hind Khalifeh, Kylee Trevillion, Gene Feder and Louise Howard

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3. Domestic violence prevalence and mental health: men in GP practices. Marianne Hester, Emma Williamson, Sue Jones, Giulia Ferrari, Lorraine Bacchus, Tim Peters and Gene Feder 4. Occurrence and impact of domestic violence and abuse in gay and bisexual men attending a UK sexual health service: a cross sectional survey. Loraine Bacchus, Ana Maria Buller, Giulia Ferrari, Tim Peters, Karen Devries, Cindy Sethi, John White, Marianne Hester and Gene Feder Symposium 4 Intervening with fathers who have maltreated their children and/or exposed them to domestic violence: The Caring Dads Model Room: Canada Room and Council Chamber 1. Understanding and promoting change in violence fathers: what makes a difference? Katreena Scott 2. The Caring Dads Programmes: Implementing the delivery model and issues in practice. Dermot Brady and Tim Kelly 3. Evaluation of Caring Dads: Safer Children. Di Jerwood, Nicola McConnell, Tracey Holdsworth, Matt Barnard and Julie Taylor Symposium 5 Research on couple treatment in intimate partner violence

Room: Old Staff Common Room

1. Views of violent acts, relationship quality and parenthood in couple treatment discussions. Juha Holma, Jenna Bunda, Anni Rantanen, Virve Hakala and Sini Jalava 2. Dialogical conversations on power abuse in couple treatment for intimate partner violence. Hanna Kyrö, Heidi Kulta, Marju Keltikangas and Juha Holma 3. Attributions of blame and autonomous nervous system responses in couple therapy for intimate partner violence. Helena Päivinen, Juha Holma and Jaakko Seikkula 4. Increasing Responsibility, Safety, and Trust through a Dialogical Approach: A Case Study in Couple Therapy for Psychological Abusive Behavior. Berta Vall, Jaakko Seikkula, Aarno Laitila, Juha Holma and Luis Botella Symposium 6 Experiences of violence and sexual abuse in a normal Norwegian youth population

Room: Senate Room

1. The truth serum of surveys. Mette Løvgren and Svein Mossige 2. Maximising disclosure – a survey into the prevalence of sexual violence. Kari Stefansen, Ingrid Smette and Mette Løvgren

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3. Violence and self-harm – an investigation of a complex relationship. Svein Mossige and Lihong Huang 4. Prevalence of self-reporting physical and sexual violence among young Norwegians – is there a change over time? Lihong Huang and Svein Mossige Oral Paper 7 Domestic Violence and Mental Health

Room: 6 College Park 01/037

1. Adult experiences of mental health outcomes as a result of intimate partner violence victimisation: a systematic review. Susan Lagdon, Cherie Armour and Maurice Stringer 2. Intimate partner violence and its contribution to common mental disorders in men and women in Rwanda. Gunilla Krantz, Aline Umubyeyi and Jospeh Ntaganira 3. Domestic violence and mental health care planning: From treating the effects to focusing on domestic violence as a need in a mental health recovery care plan. A case presentation. Aidan Cooney 4. Improving child protection practice with families affected by domestic abuse. Siobhan Laird Oral Paper 8 Prevention work with children and young people

Room: 6 College Park 01/035

1. ChildLine schools service – preventing abuse across the UK Shaun Friel 2. Free2Choose Project Zahra Alijah and Sameem Ali 3. Developing preventative ‘Keeping Safe’ education in primary schools in Northern Ireland: an RCT study Aisling McElearney, Gary Adamson and Phyllis Stephenson 4. Fighting domestic violence on engaging men and boys Iris Luarasi Oral Paper 9 Domestic Violence and the Mother-Child Relationship

Room: 6 College Park 0G/026

1. Recovery-Promoters: Ways that practitioners can support children and mothers to promote each other’s recoveries from domestic violence and abuse. Emma Katz 2. Intimate partner violence and its impact on children from their mother’s perspective. Ainhoa Izaguirre

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3. Mother-child and sibling relationships as moderators of internalising and externalising adjustment problems in children exposed to intimate partner violence. Caroline Piotrowski, Margherita Camaneresi and Rachel Wiebe 4. Building a community of practice for promoting post-separation care in intimate partner violence cases: a co-operative grounded inquiry with abused women and their teenage children in Hong Kong. Sui-Ting Kong Oral Paper 10 New Responses to Domestic Violence

Room: Emeleus Lecture Theatre

1. The effects of father’s contact and child adjustment in post-separation with domestic violence. Turhan Zeynep 2. Domestic Abuse Recovery and Support (DARS) Toolkit Joan Hughes and Maria Emilsson 3. Contrasting domestic violence: the experience of local networks in Northern Italy Marta Pietrobelli and Sabrina Ortelli 4. European collaboration in ExReMet – Examining the ‘rehabilitation’ methods of women exposed to domestic violence at European level. Lynette Jordan Oral Paper 11 Intersection of Health, Disability and Domestic Violence

Room: Larmour Lecture Theatre

1. Mainstreaming health impacts of domestic and gender-based violence. Philippa Olive and Sylvia Walby 2. Disabled women’s experiences of accessing and utilising maternity services when they are affected by domestic abuse: a critical incident technique study. Caroline Bradbury-Jones, Jenna Breckenridge, John Devaney, Fiona Duncan, Thilo Kroll, Anne Lazenbatt and Julie Taylor 3. Domestic violence and women with learning disabilities. Michelle McCarthy, Siobhan Hunt and Karen Milne Skillman 4. Women with disabilities exposed to violence. Sabine Mandl and Claudia Sprenger Oral Paper 12 Improving the Legal Response to Domestic Violence

Room: David Bates Building 01/006

1. Domestic violence, family law proceedings and children’s victimization at school. Maria Eriksson 2. Victims’ experiences with Sureties to keep the peace in cases of domestic violence. Jo-Anne Wemmers and Adrian Bungardean 3. Indicative influences of retraction in domestic violence. Anna Hopkins, Sandra Walklate and Jacqueline Wheatcroft 4. Identifying and supporting ‘medium risk’ female survivors of domestic abuse: findings from a process and impact evaluation. Rebecca Barnes and Clare Gunby 9

Oral Paper 13 New Understandings of Domestic Violence

Room: Bell Lecture Theatre

1. Decision making in abusive relationships interview (DIARI) – Swedish evaluation of a structured need inventory for battered women. Mariana Dufort, Marlene Stenbacka and Clara Hellner Gumpert 2.

“It’s not like a man and his wife”: emotional and psychological abuse of married women in the Manya-Krobo district of Ghana. Adobea Yaa Owusu

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Exploring the intergenerational transmission of domestic violence. Joanne Alexander

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Different forms of violence, exploring girls’ narratives about honour-related violence. Siv-Britt Bjoerktomta

Workshop 5 Working at the interface of domestic violence and child protection: developing skills and confidence in general practice Eszter Szilassy, Nicky Stanley, Cath Larkins, Jessica Drinkwater, Jo Morrish, Jodie Das, Adam Firth, Marianne Hester, Natalia Lokthmantina, William Turner and Gene Feder Room: Lanyon/0G/049 Workshop 6 Listening and supporting practitioners: encounters with child to parent violence Declan Coogan Room: Newark Room Workshop 7 Identifying effective elements of emergency barring intervention in domestic violence cases Katrien de Vaan and Maartje Timmerman Room: 6 College Park 0G/007 Networking Opportunity Helplines for Domestic and Sexual Violence: Challenges and Looking Forward Room: Whitla Hall Side Room 15.45

Refreshment Break

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16.15

Parallel Session C Symposium 7

Room: Great Hall

Understanding agency and resistance strategies: Children’s experiences of domestic violence and abuse 1. Agency, resistance and paradoxical resilience in young people who have lived with domestic violence. Jane Callaghan and Joanne Alexander 2. Imaging agency and resistance: photos and drawing in work with children in situations of domestic violence. Jane Callaghan, Joanne Alexander, Lisa Fellin and Judith Sixsmith 3. Accessing the voices of child survivors: Researchers’ reflections. Joanne Alexander, Jane Callaghan and Stavroula Mavrou 4. Interventions in space, place and time: Working with children’s histories of domestic violence. Lisa Fellin, Jane Callaghan Joanne Alexander Claire Harrison-Breed Symposium 8

Room: Larmour Lecture Theatre

Men in treatment for intimate partner violence: couple agreement on violence, invitation to alliance and change in violent behaviour 1. Development of early alliance in intimate partner violence treatment. Bente Lømo, Odd Arne Tjersland and Hanne Haavind 2. Changes in violent behaviour from pre- to post-treatment: client and partner reports. Askeland Ingunn Rangul, John-Filip Strandmoen, Odd-Arne Tjersland, Tore Wentzel-Larsen and Trond Heir Oral Paper 14 Victims Experiences of Help Seeking

Room: Bell Lecture Theatre

1. Subjected to violence – encountering agencies. A Norwegian study on experiences, perspectives and suggestions from service users and service providers. Randi Saur 2. Help seeking amongst women survivors of domestic violence: a qualitative study of pathways towards formal and informal support. Maggie Evans and Gene Feder 3. Risky business: An ecological analysis of intimate partner violence disclosure. Ramona Alaggia and Angelique Jenney 4. Perceptions of services available to victims/survivors of intimate partner violence in Ghana. Akua Anyemedu and Eric Y Tenkorang

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Oral Paper 15 Financial Aspect of Domestic Violence

Room: 6 College Park 01/035

1. Understanding and measuring economic abuse in the lives of survivors of domestic violence. Judy Postmus and Amanda Stylianou 2. Domestic violence and paid work. Kjersti Alsaker, Tone Morken and Bente E. Moen 3. It’s about more than money. Towards a diversified understanding of women’s experiences of economic abuse in a mature welfare state. Maria Eriksson and Rickard Ulmestig 4. Evaluating a financial education curriculum as an intervention to improve financial behaviors and financial well-being of survivors of domestic violence: Results from a longitudinal randomized control study. Judy Postmus, Andrea Hetling and Gretchen Hoge Oral Paper 16 Diverse Sexualities and Domestic Violence

Room: Canada Room and Council Chamber

1. Trans people’s experiences of domestic abuse: stigma and shame in familial contexts. Michaela Rogers 2. Johnson’s typology of domestic violence: probing the implications for understanding and responding to abusive behaviour in lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender relationships. Rebecca Barnes and Catherine Donovan 3. Challenging heteronormativity in adolescent relationship violence research: What do queer theory and same-sex attracted youth have to offer? Tanya Serisier 4. Understanding the help seeking behaviour of teenagers who experience relationship abuse (dating violence) from a feminist queer intersectional approach: a preliminary feminist queer intersectional conceptualisation. Maria Pentaraki Oral Paper 17 Developing Our Understanding of Domestic Violence

Room: 6 College Park 01/037

1. When structural violence creates contexts for intimate partner violence: the case of street-involved young women. Catherine Flynn, Dominique Damant and Geneviève Lessard 2. Victim labelling – some implications for women subjected to men’s violence in close relationships. Yngvil Grøvdal 3. A qualitative exploration of kinship and intimate partner violence among married women in Ghana. Adobea Owusu and Eric Y Tenkorang 4. An analysis of the potential held by the Council of Europe Convention on Violence Against Women as regards domestic violence. Ronagh McQuigg 12

Oral Paper 18 Shelters and Refuges

Room: Emeleus Lecture Theatre

1. The Safety Net at Risk – Domestic abuse shelters in London. Pamela Zaballa 2. Measuring quality in safe-houses. Dick Lindberg 3. Children with multiple stays at Nordic refuges for abused women: conclusions, challenges and causes for concern. Sabreen Selvik and Carolina Øverlien 4. Babettes House. Tove Hӕgg Versland and Siv Gjertsen Oral Paper 19 Improving Recognition and Response

Room: 6 College Park 0G/026

1. Making the link: Making domestic violence resources accessible to practitioners. Katharine Dill and Maddie Bell 2. ADViSE: Assessing for Domestic Violence in Sexual Health Environments. Neha Pathak, Alex Sohal, Judith Berry, Vanessa Apea, Sarah Blake, Jayne Bailey and Gene Feder 3. Using an ecological model to predict PTSD and well-being among women entering shelters. Rachel Dekel and Shaked Omer 4. Medical care and police reporting in Norwegian rape cases. Siri Thoresen, Helle Nesvold, Grete Dyb and Ole Kristian Hjemdal Workshop 8 Preventing vicarious trauma when working with domestic violence Roxane Agnew-Davies Room: Newark Room Workshop 9 Domestic Abuse Reference Tool (DART): From ground breaking research with frontline officers Jane Monckton Smith

Room: Senate Room

Workshop 10 Negotiating violence: FMM/C and bodies on the move R Elise and B Johansen

Room: Lanyon/0G/049

Workshop 11 Shame based violence: Mental health needs of South Asian women and children. Harjinder Kaur-Aujla

Room: Old Staff Common Room

Networking Opportunity Doctoral Research Students

Room: Graduate School

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17.45

Finish

18.30

Reception at the Northern Ireland Assembly Building (including a tour of the building)

20.45

Screening of ‘Bastards’ in Queen’s Film Theatre

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Tuesday 8th September 2015 Plenary 4

Chair: Claudia Bernard, Professor of Social Work, Goldsmiths, University of London

Whitla Hall

09.00

Invited Guest 2: Joanna Goodey, Head of Freedoms and Justice Department, European Union Fundamental Rights Agency

09.30

Keynote 5: Henrik Belfrage: “Risk assessment of spousal violence: What approach should we use”

10.15

Refreshments

10.45

Parallel Session D Symposium 9 Domestic violence and health: Psychological Advocacy Towards Healing (PATH)

Room: Lanyon 0G/074

1. PATH (Psychological Advocacy Towards Healing) Model of Intervention. Roxane Agnew-Davies 2. Women’s experience of meaningful change following domestic abuse: a qualitative study nested in a trial of a specialist psychological advocacy intervention (the PATH trial). Maggie Evans and Gene Feder 3. Psychological advocacy towards healing (PATH): A randomised controlled trial and cost-effectiveness analysis. Gulia Ferrari, Roxane Agnew-Davies, Jayne Bailey, Sandra Hollinghurst, Louise Howard, Emma Howarth, Tim J Peters, Lynnmarie Sardinha, Debbie Sharp and Gene Feder Symposium 10 Utilizing research based knowledge on prevention of stalking

Room: Canada Room and Council Chamber

1. Finnish women’s and children’s experiences of post-separation stalking: Forms of stalking, impacts and implications for practice. Anna Nikupeteri and Merja Laitinen 2. Multi-agency risk assessment conferences in Finnish women’s and children’s experiences of post-separation stalking. Minna Piispa 3. Combining professional and survivor expertise in a project on stalking after separation. Riitta Hannus, Jaana Kinnunen and Pia Marttala

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Symposium 11 Maternal violence and partner violence against heterosexual men

Room: Emeleus Lecture Theatre

1. Women’s violence against men and children: Blind spots in research? Solveig Bergman 2. Mother’s violence towards their children – situations, contexts and meaning-making. Anja Emilie Kruse 3. Partner violence against heterosexual men. Tove Ingebjørg Fjell Oral Paper 20 The Impact of Domestic Violence on Families

Room: 6 College Park 0G/026

1. On the outside looking in: The shared burden of domestic violence. Alison Gregory 2. Family relationship quality and self-esteem in siblings exposed to intimate partner violence. Margherita Cameranesi, Caroline Piotrowski and Rachel Wiebe 3. “A necessity in raising children” or “Parental violence”: An exploratory study of adolescents with an immigrant background and their conceptions of violence in close relationships. Mona-Iren Hauge 4. “Living with intense and continual contradictions of love and abuse” – A grounded theory study of women’s childhood experiences of domestic violence. Clarissa Sammut Scerri, Arlene Vetere and Angela Abela Oral Paper 21 Staff Development

Room: 6 College Park 01/035

1. Accredited learning programmes for domestic violence workers. Niamh Wilson 2. Changing professionals’ mind-sets on domestic violence: more than political correctness. Marceline Naudi 3. Reconnecting the links. Dawn Fyfe 4. Disclosing violence and sexual abuse: Then what. Linda Renate Kvalvik, Reidun Dybsland Inge Nordhaug, Venke Johansen, Espen R. Johansson & Dag Nordanger

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Oral Paper 22 Crossing Borders – Trafficking, Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Immigration Status Room: 6 College Park 01/037 1. Human Trafficking: experiences of violence and risks to health Sian Oram, Sharon Jakobowitz, Joanne Westwood, Cathy Zimmerman and Louise Howard 2. Resilience, growth and connection: A survivor-centred approach to helping women exit the commercial sex trade April Rand and Valandara 3. “He was never in favour for me to legalise myself”: Understanding the lives of women who overstay their visas and experience domestic violence and abuse. Helen Creswick 4. The many facets of access: survivors of domestic violence with insecure immigration status accessing support services in the UK and Sweden. Halliki Voolma Oral Paper 23 Domestic Homicide

Room: Great Hall

1. Revenge is a key issue in domestic homicide. Frans Koenraadt 2. “I never thought he would do it”: Neighbours’ responses to intimate partner femicide (domicide) in Greater Athens, Greece. Maria Pentaraki 3. Understanding domestic violence as coercive control: is it time for a new defence for women who kill their abusers? Charlotte Bishop 4. Differentiating intimate partner homicide – a Swedish register based study of homicides in Sweden 2007-2009. Shilan Caman, Joakim Sturup, Katarina Howner, Henrik Belfrage and Marianne Kristiansson Oral Paper 24 Domestic Violence Across the Lifecourse

Room: Bell Lecture Theatre

1. Ageing in safer hands. Kerrie Flood, Mary McCann and Michael Lynch 2. Midlife women’s journey away from domestic violence: a collaborative study between Australia and the United Kingdom. June Keeling and Colleen Fisher 3. Exploring the substance use of older women in Northern Ireland who have experienced or are experiencing domestic abuse. Elizabeth Martin 4. Violence against older women: a research overview. Madelene Sundström 17

Oral Paper 25 Understanding the Dynamics of Domestic Violence

Room: 6 College Park 0G/007

1. Assessing the effects of domestic violence on dually-exposed and chronically exposed Filipino students Sheila Maxwell and Christopher D. Maxwell 2. Capturing coercive control and domestic violence in the criminal law. Vanessa Bettinson 3. The impact of treating domestic violence survivors on professionals’ work and family life domains. Hadass Goldblatt and Eli Buchbinder 4. Domestic violence and its relation with institutional violence in Turkey. Günes Koc Oral Paper 26 Improving Professional Responses

Room: Larmour Lecture Theatre

1. Hidden Voices: An exploration of female same sex domestic violence and abuse. Lynne Cahill 2. Help-seeking pathways of women victims of domestic violence in vulnerable situations: Practitioners point of view. Catherine Flynn, Marie-Marthe Cousineau, Lise Gervais, Katie Lavoie and Sylvie Gravel 3. The evolution of Hester’s ‘planets’: The end of domestic violence advocacy services? Simon Kerss 4. Individual or institutional responses: A study on domestic violence among children and mothers. Gudrún Kristindóttir Oral Paper 27 The Impact of Domestic Violence

Room: Old Staff Common Room

1. Concealed pregnancy, intimate partner violence and sexual assault: is there a link? Sylvia Murphy-Tighe and Joan G Lalor 2. Women’s lived experience of domestic violence during pregnancy. Kathleen Baird, Theresa Mitchell, Jennie Naidoo and Kathryn Baldwin 3. Implementing a harm reduction approach to substance use in a domestic violence Agency: Practice issues in an Irish setting. Sarah Morton 4. Evaluation research of a pilot project – Domestic violence in the capital area of Reykjavik. Elisabet Karlsdottir

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Workshop 12 Can a trauma and attachment based parenting approach offer an alternative to traditional, conditional parenting advice post domestic violence and abuse Jane Evans Room: Senate Room Workshop 13 Social responses to violence and resistance Marianne Karlsson and Alan Wade

Room: Lanyon/0G/049

Networking Opportunity Austerity: Crafting our response - Protecting our gains. Ensuring well-funded domestic violence services Room: Whitla Hall Side Room 12.15

Lunch Book Launch in Canada Room and Council Chamber 'Domestic Violence and Protecting Children: New Thinking and Approaches', Nicky Stanley, Cathy Humphreys and contributors - Book Launch sponsored by Jessica Kingsley Publishers

13.15

Plenary 5 Chair: Arnfinn Andersen, Research Director, Norwegian Centre for Violence and Traumatic Stress Studies Keynote 6

Whitla Hall

Mari-Liis Sepper: “Promoting gender equality through individual redress and mainstreaming”

14.00

Movement time

14.15

Parallel Session E Symposium 12 Cultural patterns in intervention against violence

Room: Canada Room and Council Chamber

1. Understanding of violence, culture and minorities in discourses on domestic violence. Vlasta Jalusic 2. From private to public, need to risk, women to children: the changing professional discourse on domestic violence in the UK. Liz Kelly 19

3. Framing intervention and handling difficult decisions in professional responses to domestic violence in Germany. Bianca Grafe 4. Cultural barriers to the protection of women and children against domestic violence: professionals’ discourses in Portugal. Maria José Margalhȃes, Angelica Lima Cruz and Rita de Oliveira Braga Lopez Symposium 13 The epidemiology of violence and rape in Europe

Room: Great Hall

1. Violence against women in the EU-28: insights from the first EU-wide survey. Joanna Goodey 2. Violence and rape in Norway. Ole Kristian Hjemdal, Siri Thoresen and Mia Myhre 3. Violence and health in Sweden. Steven Lucas, Tommy Andersson and Gun Heimer Oral Paper 28 Narratives of Domestic Violence

Room: Old Staff Common Room

1. The Beam, and Shadows, of the Spotlight: Visibility and invisibility in women’s accounts of abusive relationships. Jo Neale 2. Psychological abuse: Insights from emerging research on romance fraud and domestic violence. Molly Dragiewicz and Cassandra Cross and Kelly Richards 3. Love and violence. Gayatri Shah, Arlene Vetere and Dora Brown 4. “I couldn’t move forward if I didn’t look back.” Visual expression and transitional stories of domestic violence. Jamie Bird Oral Paper 29 The Police and Health Response to Domestic Violence

Room: David Bates Building 01/006

1. Routinely asking about violence experiences in a child and adolescent mental health clinic. Ole Hultmann and Robert Lundgren 2. Police engagement with children and young people experiencing domestic violence: Key messages from the international literature. Ruth Elliffe 3. Police response and understanding of incidents of domestic abuse involving children and young people. A theory for change. Annemarie Millar 4. How do Police Officers and General Practitioners embody the role of street level bureaucrats in their understanding and implementation of a police to primary care domestic abuse notification pilot. Mhairi Mackenzie, Ellie Conway, Gene Feder, Nicky Stanley, Katie Cosgrove and Deborah Barton

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Oral Paper 30 Responses to Domestic Violence

Room: Larmour Lecture Theatre

1. A project regarding families with domestic violence – a collaboration between municipalities and the central administration in Denmark. Andrea Wagner Thomsen and Inger Kjeldsen 2. Experiences of taking part in an attachment-based intervention for families with intimate partner violence. Inga Tidefors, Jennifer Strand, Lana Kamal and Göran Jutengren 3. Family Justice Centres in Europe – a multi-agency approach to domestic violence that meets the needs of victims of domestic violence and their children. Bert Groen and Anthony Polychronakis 4. Expectations of an intervention focusing on parenting in the context of partner violence. Jennifer Strand, Lana Kamal, Göran Jutengren and Inga Tidefor Oral Paper 31 Giving Voice to Young Victims of Domestic Violence

Room: Bell Lecture Theatre

1. Healthy relationships: Young women’s voices. Ceryl Davies. 2. Securing isolated children’s rights – why and how? Kate Mevik, Linda Sjåfjell and Wanja Sæthe 3. Children’s and young people’s perspectives on domestic violence: Relationships with their family members and implications for practice. Simon Lapierre, Isabelle Côté and Vanessa Couturier 4. Recognising children’s agency: is a further shift needed in responding to domestic abuse? Claire Houghton Oral Paper 32 Improving the Response to Male Victims of Domestic Violence

Room: Emeleus Lecture Theatre

1. An investigation into the needs of men experiencing domestic abuse and current service provision (Wales). Sarah Wallace, Carolyn Wallace, Joyce Kenkre, Jo Brayford and Simon Borja 2. From policy to practice: Constructing a suitable and comprehensive crisis centre service for men who are victims of domestic violence. Monica Velde Viste and Ine Lea 3. Abused men’s accounts of domestic abuse: A narrative analysis. Barry Kestell and Melissa Corbally 4. A study of men who reported a physical aggression from an intimate partner. Jacqueline De Puy, Nathalie Romain-Glassey, and Maryline Abt

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Oral Paper 33 Promoting Safety in Domestic Violence

Room: 6 College Park 0G/026

1. Safe at home? Where women live when leaving a violent relationship. Cathy Humphreys, Kristin Diemer and Lucy Healey 2. Why women’s domestic violence refuges are not local services. Janet Bowstead 3. Marital conflict and domestic abuse in Maltese marriages. Angela Abela 4. Why do some women in Viet Nam experience more violence by husbands than others? Risk factors associated with violence by husbands from a cross-sectional national study. Henrica Jansen, Thi Viet Nga Nguyen and Hoang Tu Anh Oral Paper 34 Improving the Health Response to Domestic Violence

Room: 6 College Park 1/035

1. Concealed pregnancy and domestic violence: making the links. Sylvia Murphy Tighe and Joan G Lalor 2. An exploration of Australian midwives’ understanding and experiences of antenatal questioning relating to domestic violence and abuse against women during pregnancy. Kathleen Baird 3. Infusing technology into perinatal home visiting: screening and intervening for intimate partner violence. Loraine Bacchus, Linda Bullock and Phyllis Sharps 4. Developing a method of asking about intimate partner violence as part of the anamnesis in primary care units. Camilla Järborg, Carina Gyllner Bergmark and Catharina Ahlsten Oral Paper 35 Responding Systemically to Domestic Violence

Room: 6 College Park 01/037

1. Development, co-ordination and implementation of a National Strategy for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual and Genderbased Violence in Ireland: Lessons learned and unlearned, and the challenges ahead. Philip McCormack 2. Designing and implementing a social return on investment evaluation for a community-based domestic violence intervention (Pathways for Participation) Mairead McCoy, Colette Stewart and Lindsay Rainey 3. Tackling domestic violence in Iceland – “To keep the window open”. Johannes Jenssen, Maria Gunnarsdottir and Gudridur Bolladottir 4. Make him visible and don’t diagnose his abuse: a critical exploration of system abuse in responding to domestic violence. Adele Sheridan-Magro

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Workshop 14 Developing a theory of change demonstrating the impact of domestic violence services on survivors and their children Cris Sullivan and Sharon O’Halloran Room: 6 College Park 0G/007 Workshop 15 Young person to parent domestic violence

Room: Lanyon 0G/049

Lynne Gabriel, Zahra Tizro, Jane Cronin-Davies and Hazel James Workshop 16 Who is going to talk to my Dad?

Room: Senate Room

Claudia Bernard and Suzanne Martin Film Screening:

Room: Queen’s Film Theatre

Murdered By My Boyfriend

Networking Opportunity Preventing Domestic Violence through working with Young People Room: Whitla Hall Side Room 15.45

Refreshments Parallel Session F

16.15

Symposium 14 Domestic Violence and Health: Practitioner interventions

Room: Canada Room and Council Chamber

1. HERMES (HEalth professionals Responding to MEn for Safety): Feasibility of a general practice training intervention to improve the response to male patients who have experienced/perpetrated domestic violence and abuse. Emma Williamson, Jones, S.K., Ferrari, G., Debbonaire, T., Feder, G. and Hester, M 2. Training staff to meet the needs of gay and bisexual men experiencing domestic violence and abuse in sexual health clinics. Ana Maria Buller, Loraine Bacchus, Giulia Ferrari, Petra Brzanc and Gene Feder (presented by Emma Williamson) 3. Working with health professionals to develop strategies for improving maternity access and utilisation for disabled women experiencing domestic abuse. Jenna Breckenridge, Caroline Bradbury-Jones, John Devaney, Fiona Duncan, Thilo Kroll, Anne Lazenbatt and Julie Taylor

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Symposium 15 STIR - Safeguarding Teenage Intimate Partner Violence. Results and conclusions from a European study Room: Great Hall 1. Incidence, nature and impact of online and offline forms of intimate partner violence in young people’s relationships: Findings from the first European survey. Christine Barter, Carolina Øverlien, Per Moum Hellevik and Nicky Stanley 2. Young people’s perspectives on online and offline experiences of intimate partner violence and abuse. Nicky Stanley, Nadia Aghtaie, Cath Larkins, Marsha Wood, Georgi Apostolov, Luiza Shahbazyan, Susana Pavlou, Stalo Lesta, Noemi De Luca, Gianna Cappello, Carolina Øverlien, Per Hellevik and Christine Barter 3. Prevention and intervention of interpersonal violence and abuse in young people’s relationships: Findings from the STIR Project. Per Moum Hellevik , Carolina Øverlien, Christine Barter and Nicky Stanley 4. Teenage intimate partner violence online/offline – Findings from expert consultations in five European countries. Carolina Øverlien, Per Moum Hellevik, Christine Barter and Nicky Stanley Oral Paper 36 The Contribution of Psychological Theories to Our Understanding of Domestic Violence Room: Larmour Lecture Theatre 1. Trauma recovery, social connectedness and help seeking: From Hermann to Neuroscience. Denise Saint Arnault and Sharon O’Halloran 2. Applying a psychological approach to increase our understanding of the consequences of child exposure to domestic violence. Catherine Naughton, Aisling O'Donnell and Orla Muldoon 3. Change processes in interpersonal violence perpetrators. Tony McGinn, Brian Taylor and Mary McColgan 4. Practical responses to the links between early childhood experiences (eg trauma, disorganised attachment and loss) and violent behaviour in adulthood. John Doyle Oral Paper 37 Responding to the Consequences of Domestic Violence

Room: David Bates Building 01/006

1. “It was do or die” – How a woman’s experience of domestic abuse can influence her involvement in crime. Joanna Roberts 2. Do measures that aim to reduce adverse consequences of the penal process in cases of domestic violence fulfil their purpose? Jane Dullum and Elisiv Bakketeig

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3. Economic consequences of leaving violent men- survivors of domestic violence and social assistance in Sweden. Richard Ulmestig and Marie Eriksson 4. Information exchange and the monitoring of serious sexual and violent offenders who travel across EU Member States: issues of risk, rights, prevention and privacy. The implications for work with domestic violence perpetrators. Sarah Hilder and Hazel Kemshall Oral Paper 38 The Family Justice System Response to Domestic Violence

Room: 6 College Park 01/037

1. Access to family justice: Navigating private family law in contact cases where domestic violence is an issue. Gillian Macdonald 2. Contact and evaluation of violence: an intersectional analysis of Swedish court orders. Linnéa Bruno 3. The best interest of the child in custody cases with allegations about violence. Kristen Skjørten 4. Families experiencing domestic violence – Child contact guidance. Belfast Area Domestic Violence Partnership Oral Paper 39 Intervening Effectively with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence

Room: Bell Lecture Theatre

1. Can a leopard change its spots? Domestic violence perpetrator programmes in the United Kingdom. Liz Kelly and Nicole Westmarland 2. Identification and management of priority domestic abuse perpetrators in Wales. Amanda Robinson 3. A meta-analysis of individual level effects from criminal sanctions on the rate of intimate partner violence. Christopher Maxwell, Joel H. Garner and Jina Lee Oral Paper 40 Domestic Violence, Family Violence and Children

Room: Emeleus Lecture Theatre

1. Children exposed to violence in a cross-cultural ‘Translation’ between child welfare assessment models – From British ICS to Swedish BBIC. Zlatana Knezevic 2. Co-ordinated measures to protect children against abuse. Iben Attrup Nielsen 3. Child exposure to domestic violence as child maltreatment: One U.S. urban public child welfare agency’s response. Colleen Henry 4. Responding to suspected child abuse and neglect in pediatric dentistry – the supportive or inhibitive consultation. Therese Kvist and Göran Dahllöf

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Oral Paper 41 Culture and Violence

Room: 6 College Park 01/035

1. Culture and violence: Towards a more sophisticated theoretical framework. Anja Bredal 2. Intimate partner violence in Scotland: culture, families and people. Elizabeth Gilchrist, Alasdair Forsyth, Lana Ireland, Sarah Landale, Catherine Creamer and Jon Godwin 3. A grounded theory of intimate partner violence from the perspective of Pakistani people. Parveen Ali, Alicia O'Cathain, Elizbath Croot and Paul Naylor. 4. Symbolic pride and physical suffering: an explanation of domestic violence against married women in Vietnam. Tu-Anh Hoang Oral Paper 42 New Ways of Understanding the Dynamics of Domestic Violence

Room: 6 College Park 0G/026

1. “who r u with. what r u up 2”: Mobile phones and the dynamics of control in young people’s intimate relationships. Melanie McCarry 2. Omnipotence by stealth: the use of mobile phones as a contributory factor in domestic violence. Tirion Havard 3. Choosing non-violence. Gerry Heery 4. Swedish social workers understandings of the significance of position, context and relationship for young men’s victimization of violence: Resisting gender stereotypes? Mikael Skillmark and Christian Kullberg Workshop 17 Keeping mothers in mind: relationship based intervention for mothers and children who have experienced violence and trauma Angelique Jenney and Lisa-Sura Liddell Room: Senate Room Workshop 18 The role housing plays in responding to domestic violence Gudrun Burnet

Room: Lanyon 0G/049

Workshop 19 You don’t see until you believe: concepts and definitions of domestic violence Anna Margrete Flam Room: Old Staff Common Room Networking Opportunity Domestic Abuse and Criminal Justice 17.45

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Room: Whitla Hall Side Room

19.00

Reception Belfast City Hall followed by Gala Dinner Belfast City Hall

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Wednesday 9th September 2015 09.00

Parallel Session G Symposium 16

Room: 6 College Park 01/035

Tackling domestic abuse in Northern Ireland: Effective early interventions with perpetrators. 1. Public Protection Arrangements in Northern Ireland: Assessment and monitoring of domestic abuse cases. Julie Smyth 2. Probation Board Domestic Abuse Interventions: Criminal justice group work programmes with domestic abuse perpetrators. Jimmy Moore 3. Tackling domestic violence with unconvicted men: early identification and intervention models of practice. Kerry Malone Symposium 17 Encountering interpersonal violence in health care settings

Room: Emeleus Lecture Theatre

1. Possibilities for Change: Framing domestic violence interventions in professional health care. Marita Husso, Tuija Virkki, Marianne Notko, Juha Holma, Aarno Laitila and Mikko Mäntysaari 2. The elusiveness of non-physical violence in health care settings. Marianne Notko, Tuija Virkki and Marita Husso 3. The adverse effects of domestic violence on the psychological well-being of health care professionals. Heli Siltala and Juha Holma Oral Paper 43 Improving the System Response to Domestic Violence

Room: Bell Lecture Theatre

1. Early intervention and prevention of domestic violence and abuse in the early years classroom. Bronagh McKee 2. Better services for victims of domestic violence. Helena Ewalds, Hanna Myllylä, Olli Humalamäki and Sirkku Mehtola. 3. Domestic violence and Swedish personal social services – organization and content. Lisa Lundberg, Åke Bergmark and Hugo Stran

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Oral Paper 44 New Understandings of Domestic Violence

Room: Great Hall

1. Men’s experiences of forced marriage. Khatidja Chantler 2. Acid violence: A distant myth or scorching reality? Shabina Begum 3. Oppression to Agency: An intersectional analysis of pathways of racialized mothers in the context of domestic violence. Catherine Flynn, Marianne Chbat and Dominique Damant 4. Behind the wall: Perspectives on domestic abuse from India and Bangladesh. Kerry Anne Wykes Oral Paper 45 Violence in Dating Relationships

Room: 6 College Park 0G/026

1. An exploration of sources of conflicts and dyadic interaction patterns in adolescent couples reporting dating violence. Mylene Fernet, Martine Hébert and Alison Paradis. 2. Young, successful and abused: a biographical study from Russia. Ksenia Meshkova 3. Supporting young people in abusive relationships: risks and responses. Lis Bates Oral Paper 46 Multi-agency Approaches in Responding to Domestic Violence Room: Canada Room and Council Chamber 1. The role of interagency collaboration in supporting women of diverse cultural backgrounds who are victims of domestic violence. Strategies used in health care to work with women and their community providers. Patricia Martίnez Cedeño 2. The challenges of multi-agency working to combat domestic violence. Jackie Gaskin 3. Researching ‘Risky’ subjects – reflections on research into the MARAC process. Rachel Robbins, Claire Bellamy, Debbie Thackray, Hugh McLaughlin and Concetta Banks 4. Pathways for Participation – community engagement to raise awareness of effective responses to domestic violence. Lindsay Rainey and Colette Stewart

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Oral Paper 47 Dynamics of Domestic Violence

Room: Larmour Lecture Theatre

1. Fostering Hope: Stages in the decision to stay together among couples in which the woman has experienced intimate partner violence. Eli Buchbinder and Hany Asherovich 2. Desisting from domestic abuse: What stopping violence and abuse actually means for perpetrators and partners – implications for practice. David Morran 3. Children who witness domestic violence: Bad things seldom walk alone. Mia Myhre, Ole Kristian and Siri Thoresen 4. Revictimization in light of the total burden of domestic violence. Helene Flood Aakvaag, Siri Thoresen, Tore WentzelLarsen and Grete Dyb Oral Paper 48 Children’s Needs in the Context of Domestic Violence

Room: Lanyon 0G/074

1. Children of abused women with substance misuse problems. Ulla Beijer, Christina Scheffel Birath and Valerie DeMarinis 2. Doing the right thing? (Re)considering risk assessment and safety planning in child protection work with domestic violence cases. Angelique Jenney, Ramona Alaggia, Katreena Scott and Faye Mishna. 3. Child participation in interventions for children exposed to intimate partner violence – a qualitative study. Åsa Cater 4. Implementing early intervention responses for children living with domestic violence in the North West of England. Lorraine Radford and Melanie McCarry Workshop 20 From prescribed self to preferred self: Assisting men who have hurt their loved ones Glenda Dixon and Rob Andrew Room: 6 College Park 01/037 Workshop 21 Trauma focused cognitive behavioural therapy in treating children and adolescents exposed to intrafamilial violence Cecile Skagemo and Tale Østensjø Room: Old Staff Common Room Workshop 22 Can we really be partners? Kerri Flood, Mary McCann and Michael Lynch

Room: Lanyon 0G/049

Workshop 23 Survivor-centred program evaluation: Pathways to empowering interventions Leila Wood Room: Senate Room Film Screening:

Room: Queen’s Film Theatre

Beaten By My Boyfriend 30

Networking Opportunity Reaching Out: Older Women and Domestic Violence 10.30

Room: Whitla Hall Side Room

Refreshments Plenary 7

Chair: Philip McCormack, COSC, The National Office for the Prevention of Domestic, Sexual & Gender- based Violence, Ireland

Whitla Hall

11.00

Keynote 7 Nicky Stanley: “What do we know about interventions to prevent domestic abuse for children and young people?”

11.45

Keynote 8 Rosa Logar: “Reflecting-Acting-Empowering: Three interlinked strategies to end violence against women”

12.30

Closing Remarks Whitla Hall

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