Domestic violence is a more and more often diagnosed social problem. The results of experiencing violence from the closest family, but also exercising domestic violence on the loved ones, has major impact on the deficits in building relations, maintaining the relations and on self-esteem. When it comes to “curing” the relations in families, it is important to address our help also to the perpetrators, “because there are no violence victims without perpetrators, and there are no perpetrators without victims”.
This is why, HumanDoc Foundation, using its experience in preventing domestic voice, since 2017 has been implementing a project aimed at raising competences of Georgian psychologists in the area of working with the perpetrators of domestic violence.
The trainings are dedicated for psychologists, psychotherapists, pedagogues working with the beneficiaries who use violence against their family members, who cannot cope with their anger and have problems controlling it.
This is a new field. For a few years now, we’ve been conducting a correction-educational program for the perpetrators of domestic violence in prisons. But nobody works with people who use domestic violence at their homes, but haven’t been sentences to imprisonment.
Supporting our Georgian partners, we prepared a specialized training for the psychologists, who work in the area of domestic violence. It was conducted by Anna Wołoszczuk from the Support Center for Domestic Violence Victims in Opole and by Nino Tkeshelashvili, the director of the Georgian Therapy Program for Perpetrators of Domestic Violence in the National Agency of Probation.
trained psychologists
psychologists, specialists, governmental institutions received an issue of a textbook/program of therapeutic and rehabilitation work with the perpetrators of domestic violence
our actions received recognition from the Ombudsman Office
Together with the Ombudsman Office we organized an expert discussion panel about the Polish and Georgian experience related to work with domestic violence perpetrators. Representatives of public institutions and non-governmental organizations participated in the event.
As part of the project, a publication “Programs of Work with Domestic Violence Perpetrators. Polish and Georgian Experience” was issued.
The project “Building the Basis for the Therapy System for Perpetrators of Domestic Violence in Georgia” is co-financed from the funds of Polish-American Freedom Foundation under the Program RITA – Region in Transition, implemented by the Education for Democracy Foundation
The publication “Programs of Work with Domestic Violence Perpetrators. Polish and Georgian Experience” is available under the license of Creative Commons.
“Attribution – on the same terms 4.0 International” (CC BY-SA 4.0). Some rights reserved to the HumanDoc Foundation. The work was created as part of the project “Building the Basis for the Therapy System for Perpetrators of Domestic Violence in Georgia”, implemented by the HumanDoc Foundation using the resources of the Polish-American Freedom Foundation. Any use of the content is allowed – provided that this information is retained, including information on the license used, rights holders and the project “Building the Basis for the Therapy System for Perpetrators of Domestic Violence in Georgia”. The content of the license is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.pl.
In 2019 – 2019 we have conducted specialized courses for the psychologist who specialize in the field of violence.
