CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Junior standing or declared in the Professional or Personal Enrichment Program Course Designation: Core GenEd - Social & Behavioral Science Breadth - Social Science Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop awareness of personal values and implicit biases related to child maltreatment. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Describe the complex nature of child maltreatment and how this complexity engenders ethical issues, both systemic and personal, and affects professional work with children and families. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Know the roles of historical social, racist, political, and institutional constructs as well as societal and cultural values intertwined with child maltreatment with a particular emphasis on those stereotypes related to social identities. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Understand the role of poverty in the etiology of child maltreatment. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Define common safety, risk and protective factors for assessing different forms of child maltreatment. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Describe the impact of child maltreatment and social welfare policies on diverse groups of children and families (e.g., from various racial, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQ+, single parents, etc.). Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Understand the history and power vested in the institutional systems that form the basis for governmental design and white supremacy in child welfare practice and structure in the U.S. Audience: Graduate 8. Identify gaps in knowledge within professions responsive to child maltreatment and understand the resulting implications for practice and advocacy with children and families and the systems that have been created to respond to their needs. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Develop awareness of personal values and implicit biases related to child maltreatment. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Describe the complex nature of child maltreatment and how this complexity engenders ethical issues, both systemic and personal, and affects professional work with children and families. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Know the roles of historical social, racist, political, and institutional constructs as well as societal and cultural values intertwined with child maltreatment with a particular emphasis on those stereotypes related to social identities. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Understand the role of poverty in the etiology of child maltreatment. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Define common safety, risk and protective factors for assessing different forms of child maltreatment. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Describe the impact of child maltreatment and social welfare policies on diverse groups of children and families (e.g., from various racial, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQ+, single parents, etc.). Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Understand the history and power vested in the institutional systems that form the basis for governmental design and white supremacy in child welfare practice and structure in the U.S. Audience: Graduate 8. Identify gaps in knowledge within professions responsive to child maltreatment and understand the resulting implications for practice and advocacy with children and families and the systems that have been created to respond to their needs. Audience: Graduate