SWKM 6505 - Family Violence in Social Work

Credits: 3 (3 + 0)

Prerequisites
Acceptance into master’s program

This course provides students with an understanding of family violence. Students focus on risk factors, identification, assessment and treatment of child abuse and neglect, sibling abuse, intimate partner violence, dependent adult and elder abuse, and abuse of other vulnerable populations. They also examine systems’ issues, victim’s rights and opportunities for victim advocacy from a social work perspective.