2023-24 Graduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 24, 2024  
2023-24 Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

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HLH 542 - Health Implications of Family Violence

Will examine health issues related to family violence. Etiological factors related to child abuse and neglect, spousal/ partner abuse and elderly abuse will be included. Preventive and interventive community health models and violence-related legislation will be examined. Prerequisites/corequisites: Child abuse certification course; or consent of instructor. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code O = offered occasionally

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Discuss the scope of family violence and the risk factors and traumas associated with it.
  2. Explain the root causes, risk factors, and maintaining factors for family violence within a social ecological framework that includes the links between family violence and sexism, racism, classism, ethnocentrism, ableism, heterosexism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression and explain the variation in risk and maintaining factors across diverse dimensions.
  3. Identify risk factors for family violence.
  4. Explore various models of intervention and prevention of family violence.



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