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Apr 25, 2024
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SSMH 230 Abuse in the Family (3 credits)
Prerequisite Enrolled in the SSMH program, or instructor permission.
Course Description
A course designed to familiarize students with problems of abuse in the family. Examines types of abuse, definitions, frequency, views of causation, as well as approaches to intervention and prevention.
Student Outcomes
1. Discuss popular perceptions about family abuse and the reasons for general societal concern about this issue.
2. Identify events and summarize elements in the evolution of concern about the issue of family maltreatment within the professional human service community.
3. Define the various forms of family maltreatment: physical, sexual, psychological/emotional, financial exploitation, and neglect using criteria recognized within the professional human service and social science communities.
4. Reflect upon and explore one’s own personal and emotional reactions to the topic, and articulate personal self-care strategies for coping with the difficult nature of the material for the duration of the course.
5. Identify and describe the relative contributions of individual, family, community, cultural, and societal influences on the incidence and prevalence of family maltreatment in our society.
6. Participate in discussion about the troublesome controversies and issues associated with family abuse phenomena.
7. Summarize, distinguish between, and compare the various social science approaches to studying family abuse phenomena, e.g. experimental (scientific method), correlational, descriptive, and qualitative approaches to research.
8. Evaluate specific pieces of social science research, and/or specific models, relating to the topic of family abuse, based upon the advantages and disadvantages of various approaches to social science research.
9. Identify key components of various family maltreatment models, and be able to use this information to discuss and illustrate how these models can be used to help explain and understand the various family abuse phenomena.
10. Articulate how various forms of family abuse impact individuals, families, communities, and our society.
11. Distinguish between distinct types of offenders and discuss factors which are believed to be associated with the development of their abusive behavior.
12. Identify and describe several community resources available to help people who are affected by family abuse issues.
13. Apply information, concepts, and models introduced in this course to specific case examples of family maltreatment in order to explain its dynamics.
14. Integrate the information, results of research, concepts, and models introduced in this course in the development of a simple prevention or intervention activity or project.
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