Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Spring 2019

Publication Title

Perspectives on Social Work

Volume

13

Issue

1

Pages

15-27

Publisher Name

University of Houston

Abstract

Domestic violence remains a serious concern in the U.S. and stopping family violence is one of the 12 grand challenges for social work. Further, the core values of our profession are deeply rooted in social justice, dignity and worth of the person and importance of human relationships. This makes the preparedness of social work students to address domestic violence crucial. Social work students need to be provided with support to work with survivors, perpetrators and their families, while engaging in prevention of domestic violence. The present study explores the extent to which domestic violence content is covered within MSW curriculum in the U.S. Out of the 266 MSW schools accredited by the CSWE; we received 64 responses with a 19.5% response rate. About 70.4% of the programs surveyed offered at least one dedicated course on domestic violence. While there still remains a great need to expand the domestic violence curriculum in MSW programs, this study demonstrated recent increases of domestic violence content in MSW curriculum and in innovative teaching tools.

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Author Posting © Perspectives on Social Work, 2019. This article is posted here by permission of Perspectives on Social Work for personal use, not for redistribution. The article was published in Perspectives on Social Work, Volume 13, Issue 1, Summer 2019, https://www.uh.edu/socialwork/academics/phd/doctoral-journal/

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