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Apr 24, 2024
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SW 3213 - Child Abuse and Neglect
Designed for social work students and other students interested in human services. Explores child abuse and neglect within an ecological and family systems perspective. Emphasizes an interdisciplinary viewpoint and incorporates experiences in the community. Examine theories of causation of child abuse and neglect, issues in recognition, assessment, intervention, treatment, follow-up, and related issues of family violence and substance abuse. Incorporates discussion of social work values, ethics, and historical traditions in child welfare practice, including understanding issues of diversity for individuals and families. Consider child welfare policy issues, including advocacy issues, in relation to child protection, intervention with diverse populations, and treatment. The questions we are asking in this course are: Using an ecological perspective, what are the meanings of child abuse and neglect to individuals, to families, and to society? Understanding some of these meanings, what are some recommendations for social policy response?
Requisites: Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Complete, analyze, and report to the class on 2 observations and 1 interview with a director, social worker, or child care staff member, within an agency or organization that works with children and families.
- Define a perspective for child welfare practice that builds on the unique strengths of individuals and family systems.
- Define child abuse, neglect, family violence, intervention, and treatment.
- Define family systems perspective and ecological perspective, and understand relationships within systems that impact child abuse, neglect, family violence, intervention, and child welfare policy.
- Delineate social work values, ethics, and historical traditions in child welfare practice including ideas about vulnerable populations and social justice.
- Describe interdisciplinary roles and collaboration in relation to child welfare practice.
- Discuss child welfare policy and relationships between social policy decisions and child abuse and family violence.
- Graduate students will complete an in depth analysis and critique of a case.
- Graduate students will demonstrate an ability to critically examine a range of social policy issues with emphasis on their effects on families and children.
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