About this webinar
Our December 2022 webinar covered what technology-facilitated coercive control looks like in practice and strategies for supporting victim-survivors. During the webinar we received a lot of interesting questions that we didn’t have time to address.
This extended Q&A is an opportunity to hear again from our webinar panel, as they answer more of your questions from the December 2022 webinar.
The introduction of this webinar will summarise some key discussion points and highlights from the December 2022 webinar. If you have not seen the December 2022 webinar, we recommend you watch it before this Q&A session to get the most out of this session.
Please note: This pre-recorded Q&A session will run for 30-minutes instead of the usual 60-minute webinar format. There will not be live facilitation, presenters, or question time, but we are still here to help with any technical issues. There will be a survey at the end of the session so you can provide feedback on this new recorded Q&A session format and how useful you found it.
This webinar will be of interest to practitioners who work with children and families in a range of settings including mental health and wellbeing.
Information about the December webinar
Coercive control is the overarching context that intimate partner violence occurs within. Coercive control involves ongoing, repetitive and cumulative tactics that impact the victim-survivor’s autonomy, liberty and equality.1
In technology-facilitated coercive control, various forms of technology are used to extend the perpetrator’s ability to monitor and maintain surveillance of the victim-survivor. Technology also provides avenues to harass, threaten and shame victim-survivors, manipulate their social relationships and ensure compliance with demands.
Victim-survivors commonly experience a combination of technology-facilitated and face-to-face psychological, physical, sexual and/or financial abuse. An important consideration for practitioners is that victim-survivors may not know that what they are experiencing is abuse and may not have the ability to access support because they are being monitored.
Drawing on the latest research and practitioner insights this webinar:
Describes what technology-facilitated coercive control looks like in practice.
Provides examples of the different ways that victim-survivors might experience technology-facilitated coercive control.
Suggests strategies for face-to-face and telehealth practice.
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