Examining the Role of Coercive Control 1.5 Hours

This workshop is intended for attorneys, family court services staff, and judges to recognize nonphysical forms of abuse, including coercive control. Recent legal changes, including California Senate Bill 1141, as well as a growing body of social scientific research, have helped us all better understand the role of nonphysical abuse in domestic violence cases. Certain already marginalized groups, such as LGBTQI+ individuals, immigrants, and people of color, face unique experiences with nonphysical abuse, such as threats to "out" someone's sexual orientation or to call immigration authorities on someone. Understanding how nonphysical abuse occurs, and how to address it, is important and necessary to keep families safe. This workshop will be part lecture-style and part interactive: the presenters will present some hypothetical scenarios and ask participants how they would respond, whether they find the example to be coercive control, and so on. The presenters, Mindy and Cory, have presented on California Senate Bill 1141 and coercive control before.

This workshop is designed to help you:
Recognize nonphysical forms of abuse, including coercive control;
Describe recent social scientific and legal changes, including California SB 1141, that have clarified the family law definition of domestic violence, which applies in some ways to other civil and criminal cases; and
Identify how already marginalized groups uniquely and disproportionately experience nonphysical abuse.

 

Cory Hernandez
Staff Attorney
With a bachelor’s of science degree in political science and American studies from MIT, a master’s of science degree in political science from MIT, and a law degree from UC Berkeley, Cory is excited to return to FVAP as a staff attorney. Cory has previously worked as a staff attorney at Family Violence Law Center, and as a legal fellow and law clerk for FVAP. During law school, Cory clerked for Justice Jon B. Streeter of the California First District Court of Appeal, FVLC, and East Bay Community Law Center. Cory currently serves on the Judicial Council’s Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee, and volunteers as a peer manuscript reviewer for the international journal, Violence Against Women.
 
 

Dr. Mindy Mechanic, Professor, Department of Psychology, Cal State Fullerton

Dr. Mindy Mechanic is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Cal State Fullerton. She is a clinical psychologist whose work focuses on the psychosocial consequences of violence, trauma and victimization with an emphasis on violence against women and other forms of interpersonal violence. Her work has addressed the mental health consequences of violence, such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and depression as well as other important physical and social health outcomes. She also works in the areas of forensic psychology and frequently provides expert testimony in complex legal cases involving interpersonal violence.
Dr. Mechanic’s ares of research focuses on Post-Traumic Stress Disorder, depression and other consequences of violence, trauma and victimization. Prior to accepting a position at CSUF, Dr. Mechanic was an assistant research professor at the Center for Trauma Recovery at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where she conducted large, nationally funded research projects on interpersonal violence. She also was involved in education, training and clinical work with victims of trauma/interpersonal violence.
 

 

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