Dr Lisa Warren1
1Code Black Psychology, Malvern, Australia, 2Monash University, Clayton, Australia
Biography:
Lisa is a clinical and forensic psychologist. She is the Clinical Director of Code Black Psychology and an Senior Lecturer at Monash University. She specialises in the areas of complex diagnostics and examining patterns of persistent, harmful behaviours. Her cases include prolonged stalking, family violence and coercive control, habitual offending, and persons who have exhausted service systems. Lisa has a special interest in professional ethics, chairing the Ethics Committee of the Australian Psychological Society for two years. During this time, she advocated for the importance of recognising ethical dilemmas and formal complaints as opportunities for both individual and sector-wide growth.
Serious youth-to-youth violence is impactful, costly, marginalising, and devastating to the communities of the victims and perpetrators. The consequences of serious youth-to-youth violence has been widely acknowledged in academic, political and public discourses. The Stable Bases Framework was developed from the academic literature and stakeholders from government, emergency services, schools, and youth services who echoed the broader discourse and the distress experienced as young lives were changed or lost by serious youth-to-youth violence.
The Stable Bases Framework includes six aims for intervention. Each aim is a base on which to create stability for the young person. The bases are self-identity, self-growth, belonging, trust, security and being valued. The framework aims to collectively address security for at-risk young people to support them being safe and feeling safe; being valued so young people are seen, heard and validated; building self-identity so each young person can become their best unique self; building self-growth opportunities through supported learning; supporting a sense of belonging to their family and community; and the sector effectively establishing trust with the young person and their families.