CSL 588 Seminar in Family Violence

This course will provide students with a strong foundation for understanding and intervening in violence and abuse toward children, partners, siblings, and the elderly. The salient and pervasive problem of family violence will be discussed from an ecological and systems perspective, using multi-causal theories to explain individual, family, community, and social factors that contribute to and help prevent abuse. Issues of ethnicity, social class and gender will be integrated. Spring.

Credits

3