Intimate Partner Violence

Catalog description

This course examines intimate partner violence or domestic violence from its historic roots to the present. In accordance with an historical and contextual approach, the course examines theories that explain and describe the phenomenon, research that attempts to define it, as well as social policies, social movements, and intervention from a social work perspective. Intimate partner violence, cuts across ethnics, racial, and class boundaries and impedes a victim’s wellbeing and social participation.