The lesson aims to raise students’ awareness on domestic violence issues, to improve their knowledge and reinforce their skills in addressing and dealing efficiently with abused people in the health and social care settings. At the end of the course students should be able to gain:

Knowledge

• Understand the mechanism of violence and interpretive theoretical approaches.
• Recognize the early physical, emotional and behavioral signs of abuse and its consequences to the child and adult.

Skills

• Sorting out cases of abuse using reliable tools.
• Conducting assessment and risk assessment.
• Providing counseling to victims and their families.
• Recording and documenting the case in a file.
• Advocate and defend the rights of victims.
• Implementation of the current legislation for cases of abuse of children and adults.
• Design and implementation of individualized interventions to support victims of abuse and perpetrators.

Abilities

• Critical analysis and reflection on the factors that influence the practice of social work in the management of abuse cases.
• Interdisciplinary management of abuse cases
• Evidence-based decision-making on the individualized victim and perpetrator support plan.

• Collection and synthesis of information
• Decision making
• Individual work
• Interdisciplinary work
• Professional responsibility
• Critical thinking
• Self-evaluation

1. Theory of violence

2. Risk factors and consequences

3. Clinical indicators of domestic violence

4. Clinical protocols and practice guidelines for the identification and management of domestic

violence

5. Cultural competency in responding to domestic violence victims

6. Screening for domestic violence

7. Interviewing basics, barriers to interviewing, sensitive questioning

8. Recording and documentation of domestic violence

9. Information sharing

10. Counselling techniques

11. Referral – networking

12. Reporting requirements - Mandatory reporting

13. Legal framework

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Προτεινόμενα επιστημονικά περιοδικά

• Journal of Family Violence (https://www.springer.com/journal/10896)
• Journal of Interpersonal Violence (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/jiv)
• Trauma, Violence & Abuse (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/tva)
• Aggressive Behavior (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10982337)