Using Timelines in Domestic Abuse Support
This practical, trauma-informed resource supports professionals to use timelines safely and collaboratively with victim-survivors of domestic abuse. Timelines can help someone organise complex or fragmented experiences, identify patterns of coercion, control and escalation, and understand how abuse has affected their safety, freedom, wellbeing, relationships and everyday life.
The resource includes guidance on mapping patterns of abuse and exploring individual incidents, alongside a completed example, printable worksheets and a practitioner checklist. It is designed to promote choice, support approximate or non-linear recall and recognise the victim-survivor’s resistance, help-seeking and safety strategies, without turning the conversation into an interrogation or test of credibility.