Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool: A Practitioner’s Tool for Improving Assessment, Intervention & Outcomes
The web-based Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool is a virtual practice tool for improving assessment, intervention, and outcomes through a perpetrator pattern–based approach. The tool allows practitioners to apply the Safe & Together Model’s critical concepts and principles to their current caseload in real time.
The Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool helps to identify the primary perpetrator and their pattern of coercive control, assess the harm to children, and document protective parenting efforts. Our behavioral- and fact-based tool helps to avoid gender bias and supports impartiality. It specifically addresses key issues like intersections, intersectionalities, lateral violence, and patterns beyond the family itself—including the perpetrator’s manipulation of systems—and can help contextualize and evaluate concerns about contact resistance and refusal. The tool also includes a place for workers to consider the implications for their practice and next steps.
The Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool includes:
A brief orientation to domestic abuse–informed practice and a perpetrator pattern-based approach, the uses for the tool, and preparation for using the tool
A self-guiding case processing space for individual, supervisory, or group work around real cases
Manageable steps with specific guidance
Links to additional resources
Self-guided “check your work” sections to ensure successful completion of the tool
Guidance for reflection on implications for planning and decision-making
A printable format useful for documentation, report writing, and case planning
Subscription Plans
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Top 10 Features & Benefits of the PPMT
Accessible and easy to use—with no prior Safe & Together Model training required
Fully online platform with saving functionality that allows you to continue your work at any time
Highly interactive interface featuring guided prompts and supplemental materials
Built-in coaching through "check your work" sections providing virtual reminders and feedback
Capacity to map 5 cases simultaneously, with the ability to delete completed cases after printing
Complete documentation support with downloadable and printable content for case files
Specialized sections addressing worker safety, intersectionalities, and system manipulation by perpetrators
Ideal for supervisory oversight and multi-disciplinary/high-risk team collaboration
Particularly effective for uncovering complexities in high-risk cases
