Perpetrator Pattern Mapping Tool

Mapping the Perpetrator’s Pattern: A Practitioner’s Tool for Improving Assessment, Intervention, and 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

Monthly Subscription

$19.95 USD/month

$29 CAD/month

£16/month

$32 AUD/month

$36 NZD/month

Annual Subscription

$199.95 USD/year

$290 CAD/year

£158/year

$316 AUD/year

$358 NZD/year

Forever Access

$599 USD

$869 CAD

£490

$940 AUD

$1,072 NZD

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

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