Family Violence

Catalog description

Prerequisite or co-requisite for SOWK 695 . This course will focus on the causes, prevalence, treatment, and prevention of violence that individuals may encounter when working with families. It will provide a historical approach to the issue of violence, the various frameworks needed to understand it and the domestic trends that both promote and hinder it. The course will maintain a dual focus on victims and perpetrators of crime and how they interact with social and economic justice issues. The course will assist students to explore the impact of violence on vulnerable groups such as children, women, the elderly, mentally ill, minority groups, and other special populations. Topics will include child maltreatment, domestic violence, courtship violence, and abuse of the elderly and disabled. The course will help students to develop a culturally competent view of the impact of violence upon individuals and families. Students will learn about violence prevention and intervention strategies that may be used in practice, programming, policy, and research.