SWK 255 Family Violence

Drawing on the fields of counseling, social work, psychology, women?s studies, history, sociology, and anthropology, this course explores many forms of family violence. Family violence will be presented within the framework of a systems model looking at the individual family, community, and societal factors that exist to allow, assist, as well as prevent, violence. Issues of gender, class, race and intervention will also be presented for discussion.

Credits

3