Working with young people who use violence

This PracticeLab quiz helps you revisit the essential concepts that guide safe, quality practice. Answer the questions, read the explanations, and build confidence in the knowledge you bring to your role.

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   Trauma History and Risk Assessment

   Apply an understanding of how adult-perpetrated violence, care rejection, and complex trauma histories shape risk assessment for young people using harm, including how to identify ongoing adult perpetration as a source of risk.

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   Whole-of-Family and Environmental Risk Factors

   Identify and weigh family, peer, and community-level risk and protective factors — including sibling impacts, school engagement, parental trauma histories, and peer network dynamics — when assessing and managing risk across the family.

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   Barriers to Engagement and Disclosure

   Recognise how shame, systemic racism, prior negative service experiences, disability, and overservicing create barriers to disclosure and engagement, and apply strategies to build trust and create safe conditions for young people and families to seek help.

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   Effective Practice with Young People Using Harm

   Apply relational, developmentally-informed engagement approaches with young people using harm — including attention to identity formation, emerging sexuality and gender, culturally specific roles, and the long-term, flexible practice required to accurately assess risk over time.