Domestic Abuse Recovery Service
01934 903300
Our Services
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Trauma Training
Domestic Abuse and Disability from a trauma perspective:
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What is trauma & the research links to disability & chronic conditions
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What is DA trauma, what the research tells us about the impact of this
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Disability stats of DA & barriers to recognising DA
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Having a DA trauma & disability understanding can help in own remits of working and how that can present in disabled/chronic survivors
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Referral Pathway
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Specialist Advice
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Experiencing domestic abuse means you are twice as likely to be diagnosed with a chronic, long-term illness.
Disabled clients who experience DA are twice as likely to have previously planned or attempted suicide (22% vs 11%).
MARAC data shows nationally only 3.9% of referrals were for disabled victims and research shows low referral rates for disabled people into DA services.
Disabled clients are much more likely to be suffering abuse from a current partner (37%) than non-disabled (28%).
Disabled clients typically experience abuse for longer periods of time before accessing support (3.3 years vs 2.3 years).
Trauma research shows us
that these links are not coincidental.
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Established
Pathways
In the disabled community there are disproportionately higher rates of DA for longer, more frequent and severity.
Disabled people also encounter differing dynamics of DA, which may include more severe coercion, control, and abuse.
There are more barriers to support and recognition of the abuse.
Co-morbities increase the risk of further health impact, isolation, and difficulty in leaving.
Chronic pain/disability treatments tend not to be trauma informed and don’t very often assess historic/current trauma.
