SWK 564 - Child Maltreatment

Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
This course focuses on understanding, identifying, assessing, intervening and preventing child abuse and neglect, as well as other forms of child maltreatment. California state law, intervention strategies and theories of abuse and neglect are examined and applied to case scenarios. The effects of child maltreatment, prevalence, and risk factors are discussed and the role of the social worker as child advocate and mandated reporter are highlighted. Global child maltreatment is also examined from a social work perspective on micro through macro levels.