Safety And Freedom From Abusers (SAFFA): Emma’s Belief-System
Based on her Book, Emma’s approach is built around a systematic set of beliefs and values, practised in her talks and training.
This belief-system has 5 elements:
Entrapment
Effects
Experiences
Efforts
Emergence
Perpetrators’ ENTRAPMENT of victims-survivors
Be alert to how perpetrators deliberately and massively restrict victims’-survivors’ safety and freedom.
Emma’s Framework maps out perpetrators’ actions with a level of detail that fully explains their tactics. Shifting away from language that ‘mutualises’ the problem, it outlines the understandable ways that victims-survivors have become entrapped, showing how victims-survivors should not be blamed for perpetrators’ actions.
The EFFECTS of the perpetrator’s entrapment on the family
Identify the negative impacts of perpetrators’ entrapment on victims’-survivors’ everyday lives.
Emma’s Framework explains the many ways that perpetrators’ entrapment harms the lives of children and victim-survivor parents. Highlighting perpetrators’ responsibility for families’ problems, it shows how we can make perpetrators’ tactics visible so they can be effectively tackled.
Children’s EXPERIENCES as co-victims and co-survivors
Understand how children may be struggling in one or more areas of life due to perpetrators’ actions, and how perpetrators’ entrapment may be creating strains in their relationship with their victim-survivor parents.
Emma’s Framework decodes how, as part of their entrapment, perpetrators’ use and abuse of children harms children and creates strains and distance in children’s relationships with victim-survivor parents. Exploring how children’s experiences are shaped by perpetrators’ actions, it sets out ways to heal the strains in children’s relationships with their victim-survivor parents.
Victim-survivor parents’ EFFORTS to protect children
Identify what protective actions are being taken by victim-survivor parents amid their experiences of entrapment, and how to support them.
Emma’s Framework provides tools that can enable the identification of efforts made by victim-survivor parents to protect children. Identifying these efforts, some of which will be obvious and some of which will be more subtle, it provides ways of appreciating and upholding victims’-survivors’ strengths and capabilities.
Children’s and adults’ EMERGENCE from coercive control and post-separation abuse
Explore how to enhance children’s and adults’ wellbeing and healing from coercive control and post-separation abuse.
Emma’s Framework emphasises the continued danger that perpetrators often pose to children’s safety and freedom post-separation. Recognising how perpetrators’ abuse is neither historic nor irrelevant to children’s current wellbeing, it illuminates how children and adults can be supported to heal from their harmful experiences.