Mother-child relationships and coercive control: Tailoring services to support better outcomes

Date | 30th January, 2024

Time | 9 am - 10 am AEDT 

Using coercion and control to attack the victim-survivor mother's mothering is intended as a form of emotional abuse and isolation. 

This seminar presents the first in-depth study to explore factors influencing closeness, distance and strain in mother-child relationships in the context of coercive control. 

Dr. Emma Katz’s research was based on qualitative interviews with mothers and children to explore their experiences and uncovered five key influences. This seminar will explore and unpack them and provide insight into practice:

  • Behaviour toward children
  • Perpetrator’s use of domestic violence
  • Perpetrator’s undermining of the mother-child relationship
  • Mother’s ability to emotionally connect to children
  • Children’s views of mother and perpetrator

Attend this complimentary seminar to understand how these findings have significance for those who work with domestic violence and how they may help to tailor responses more effectively to mothers’ and children’s needs.