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Course Description: This course examines the major issues and current controversies in the field, provides background information on each type of family violence, and offers strategies for combating domestic abuse. In an informative discussion designed to enhance counselors’ ability to assess and treat each type of family violence, this course covers both well-recognized forms of maltreatment, such as the abuse of women and children, and less understood issues, such as female-on-male intimacy violence, parent and elder abuse, same-sex violence, and dating violence and stalking. Case studies throughout the text illustrate clinical applications in action.
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Course Components:
We allow you to obtain the textbook on your own to afford you greater flexibility. You can borrow from the library or a friend, or purchase a new or used copy for yourself or with a group of friends.
Course Credit(s): 12 CE Credits or Hours
Course Format: Book-Based (format of this course is noninteractive)
Course Schedule: Self-paced
Course Author(s): David M. Lawson, PhD
Content Publisher(s): American Counseling Association
Course Author(s) Qualifications:
Dr. Lawson is a professor in the Department of Human Services and teaches in the master’s program in clinical mental health and the doctoral program in school psychology at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. He also maintains a private practice working primarily with survivors of interpersonal trauma.
Course Level: Beginning/Introductory, Intermediate, Advanced
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