Intimate Partner Violence

Catalog description

Same as SOC WK 4610 . Prerequisites: SOC WK 3510 . This course focuses on theoretical and empirical understanding of domestic violence in US society and social work practice with battered women and their families. It addresses direct services, community organizing, and public policy changes to help end violence against women. Relationships between violence against women and other forms of oppression (e.g., racism, economic exploitation, heterosexism and social class) are explored.