Advanced Certificate in Emotional Abuse Behaviours

- Identify advanced manipulation tactics that operate beneath the surface of the main emotional abuse cycle
- Understand covert insults and hidden messages
- Learn the anatomy of blame-shifting and how DARVO operates.
- Understand financial abuse and how to call it out
- Recognise psychological sexual pressure and the difference between coercion and consent in intimate relationships
- Gain professional frameworks - evidence-based knowledge for therapists and coaches supporting clients through emotional abuse dynamics

Course Prerequisite(s)

Please note that this course has the following prerequisites which must be completed before it can be accessed
Certificate in Understanding Emotional Abuse

Modules:

Introduction
Introducing and exploring more complex and covert tactics often used by emotional abusers.

Introduction

00:40

Negging and Dog Whistling
Introduces two undermining tactics. Negging involves disguised insults intended to destabilise self-esteem, while dog whistling refers to coded criticism understood only by the target.

Future Faking
Explains how false promises are used to maintain emotional investment. These illusions of future commitment can keep survivors stuck in hope.

DARVO
Breaks down a common defensive reaction: Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. Explains how this tactic shifts blame and protects the abuser from accountability.

Financial Abuse
Explores how money and resources are used to exert control through restriction, surveillance, or manipulation, often leading to dependency.

Sexual Coercion
Addresses how coercion can occur within intimate relationships. Highlights how shame and conditioning can make it difficult to recognise.

Word Salad
Describes conversations designed to confuse and exhaust. These often feature deflection, contradiction, or circular reasoning, making meaningful dialogue impossible.

Conclusion
Brings the behaviours together and reflects on their impact, encouraging self-trust and continued learning.

Level

Intermediate
Duration

3 hours
Enrollment validity

Enrollment validity: 90 days
Certificate

Certificate of completion

Advanced Certificate in Emotional Abuse Behaviours

What I will learn?

Course Prerequisite(s)

Modules:

Introduction
Introducing and exploring more complex and covert tactics often used by emotional abusers.

Introduction

Negging and Dog Whistling
Introduces two undermining tactics. Negging involves disguised insults intended to destabilise self-esteem, while dog whistling refers to coded criticism understood only by the target.

Negging and Dog Whistling

Negging and Dog Whistling

Future Faking
Explains how false promises are used to maintain emotional investment. These illusions of future commitment can keep survivors stuck in hope.

Future Faking

Module 3

DARVO
Breaks down a common defensive reaction: Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. Explains how this tactic shifts blame and protects the abuser from accountability.

DARVO

Module 4

Financial Abuse
Explores how money and resources are used to exert control through restriction, surveillance, or manipulation, often leading to dependency.

Financial Abuse

Module 5

Sexual Coercion
Addresses how coercion can occur within intimate relationships. Highlights how shame and conditioning can make it difficult to recognise.

Sexual Coercion

Module 6

Word Salad
Describes conversations designed to confuse and exhaust. These often feature deflection, contradiction, or circular reasoning, making meaningful dialogue impossible.

Word Salad

Module 4

Conclusion
Brings the behaviours together and reflects on their impact, encouraging self-trust and continued learning.

Conclusion

Advanced Certificate in Emotional Abuse Behaviours

What I will learn?

Course Prerequisite(s)

Modules:

Introduction Introducing and exploring more complex and covert tactics often used by emotional abusers.

Introduction

Negging and Dog Whistling Introduces two undermining tactics. Negging involves disguised insults intended to destabilise self-esteem, while dog whistling refers to coded criticism understood only by the target.

Negging and Dog Whistling

Negging and Dog Whistling

Future Faking Explains how false promises are used to maintain emotional investment. These illusions of future commitment can keep survivors stuck in hope.

Future Faking

Module 3

DARVO Breaks down a common defensive reaction: Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. Explains how this tactic shifts blame and protects the abuser from accountability.

DARVO

Module 4

Financial Abuse Explores how money and resources are used to exert control through restriction, surveillance, or manipulation, often leading to dependency.

Financial Abuse

Module 5

Sexual Coercion Addresses how coercion can occur within intimate relationships. Highlights how shame and conditioning can make it difficult to recognise.

Sexual Coercion

Module 6

Word Salad Describes conversations designed to confuse and exhaust. These often feature deflection, contradiction, or circular reasoning, making meaningful dialogue impossible.

Word Salad

Module 4

Conclusion Brings the behaviours together and reflects on their impact, encouraging self-trust and continued learning.

Conclusion

Introduction
Introducing and exploring more complex and covert tactics often used by emotional abusers.

Negging and Dog Whistling
Introduces two undermining tactics. Negging involves disguised insults intended to destabilise self-esteem, while dog whistling refers to coded criticism understood only by the target.

Future Faking
Explains how false promises are used to maintain emotional investment. These illusions of future commitment can keep survivors stuck in hope.

DARVO
Breaks down a common defensive reaction: Deny, Attack, and Reverse Victim and Offender. Explains how this tactic shifts blame and protects the abuser from accountability.

Financial Abuse
Explores how money and resources are used to exert control through restriction, surveillance, or manipulation, often leading to dependency.

Sexual Coercion
Addresses how coercion can occur within intimate relationships. Highlights how shame and conditioning can make it difficult to recognise.

Word Salad
Describes conversations designed to confuse and exhaust. These often feature deflection, contradiction, or circular reasoning, making meaningful dialogue impossible.

Conclusion
Brings the behaviours together and reflects on their impact, encouraging self-trust and continued learning.