Professor of the Pedagogy and Psychology Department, Doctor of Psychological Sciences, Associate Professor Natalia Miloradova conducted online the first of several planned trainings on preventing and combating domestic violence for instructors of the National Police training centers and teachers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs educational institutions.

The training was conducted as part of the development of a comprehensive approach to prevention and counteraction to domestic and gender-based violence with the support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine and the National Police.

The purpose of these trainings is to provide the necessary knowledge on the concept of domestic violence, forms, causes and conditions of its manifestations, legal bases for preventing and combating domestic violence, police interaction with other governmental and non-governmental organizations in the system of comprehensive assistance to victims, as well as the organization of work of mobile groups to respond to the facts of domestic violence.

During the training the following issues were considered: psychological features of domestic violence, cycle of violence and phenomena, psychological features of the victim and the offender, features of interaction with the victim and the offender; features and conditions of effective adult learning, organizational and methodological conditions of training, training, specific features of training, features of methods used during training; features of building a training program, group dynamics, factors influencing group dynamics at training, types and interaction with "difficult" participants in training, ethics of coach behavior.