What Legal Professionals and Others Need to Know About Those Who Abuse Older Adults and Persons with Disabilities

What Legal Professionals and Others Need to Know About Those Who Abuse Older Adults and Persons with Disabilities 

Date: Friday February 5, 2021
Time: 10:00 to 11:30 a.m.
Location: Online. You will receive a Zoom link via email after registering for this event. 
Cost: Free for ALA members; and $25 for non-members.
CLE Credit:  Legal professionals and encouraged to participate  CLE's are being pursued 

Little is understood about perpetrators of abuse toward seniors or adults with disabilities. Their motivations to commit abusive behavior differ based on their particular relationship with the victim, whether they are an intimate partner abusing a senior or a caretaking relative abusing a senior or an adult with a disability. This webinar presents profiles of these different types of perpetrators in terms of their unique traits, motivations to abuse, and typical types of abusive behavior. A deeper understanding of these issues helps to inform which legal sanctions, and beyond this, which treatment modalities and strategies tend to be most effective for each type of abuser. Discussion of legal and treatment options will include considerations of how to protect the safety and empowerment of those who have been abused.

Presenter: David Adams, Ed.D., Co-Director, Emerge, Inc., Malden, MA

Legal professionals are encouraged to participate. CLEs are being pursued.

Learning objectives:
1. Recognize six characteristics of those who perpetrate abuse toward intimate partners who are seniors 2. Identify the types and patterns of abuse for this type of perpetrator
3. Understand what legal interventions and types of treatment are most effective for this type of abuser
4. Recognize six characteristics of caretaking relatives who perpetrate abuse toward seniors or adults, aged 18-59, with disabilities
5. Identify the types and patterns of abuse for this type of perpetrator
6. For both types of abuser, recognize basic elements of safety planning for victims