Responding to Suicides in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence | ShantiWorks
This workshop will explore the complex relationship between suicide and intimate partner violence, examining the tensions, challenges and opportunities in policy and practice. It is devastating when an intimate partner violence victim takes their own life because they are subject to such torment, pain and entrapment. To prevent such suicides, it is essential to strengthen coordinated responses to both victims and perpetrators.
Through the lens of social entrapment and coercive control, we will explore how patterns of threat and risk posed by perpetrators of intimate partner violence can lead to suicide by victims. Using Jane Monckton-Smith’s 8-stage timeline of coerced suicide, this workshop will encourage critical reflection and practice possibilities to strengthen risk assessment, safety planning, multi-agency cooperation, and documentation.
This workshop will:
- Share current local data and evidence about intimate partner suicides.
- Facilitate learnings from Professor Jane Monckton Smith’s work on the 8-stage intimate partner suicide timeline.
- Note the ways perpetrators tactically use threats to suicide and what this means for ongoing control and entrapment in the lives of victims.
- Provide possibilities to expose social entrapment in our risk assessment to intervene and disrupt the constraints that intimate partner violence inflicts on victims