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Curtin University

Understanding Domestic Violence

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Overview

This course has been developed to provide learners with a better understanding of the diverse experience of domestic violence and abuse, and the impact that this can have on the victims, their families, and the wider community.

We aim to provide learners with the knowledge and skills to work in the fields of domestic and family violence, intimate partner violence, and gendered violence against women.

Syllabus

Module 1: What is abuse?

Module 2: Prevalence of family and domestic violence

Module 3: Aspects and impacts of family and domestic violence

Module 4: Coercive control and Gaslighting

Module 5: Family and domestic violence in minority groups

Module 6: Technological abuse and Non-fatal strangulation

Module 7: Fatal consequences: Intimate partner homicide

Module 8: Where to from here?

Taught by

Robyn Westgate

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