Family Violence Prevention

Globally and nationally, family violence prevention is recognised as a critical area for social change and transformation.

There is increasing recognition among local and international governments and other bodies of the need for high level skills in family violence prevention to address this global social problem and achieve sustained change.The course is designed to support social transformation for a violence free future, and will build your skills in a range of practice areas including child safety, men's behaviour change, health impacts of family violence, family violence in the criminal justice system and working with victims and survivors.

The knowledge and skills you will gain are transferable across a wide range of professions and occupations where workers encounter domestic and family violence issues.

Students complete the following four core units which provide knowledge, skills, attitudes and values required of skilled practitioners working in a range of fields addressing family violence prevention. Optional synchronous online workshops will be delivered during each of these units.

APG4223 Gender, violence and society: Understanding social patterns: taken between March-April 2020.

APG4224 Gender, violence and society: Criminal justice responses: taken in June 2020.

APG5075 Using data to understand family violence: taken between August-September 2020.

APG5076 Health and family violence: taken in July 2020.

Dates may be subject to change.

Qualifications

Applicants must have successfully completed a bachelor’s degree in any discipline or satisfactory substitute that the faculty considers to be equivalent (e.g. 5 years of work experience in a cognate discipline including humanities or social sciences)

English requirements

Applicants must also meet the English language requirements.

University entrance requirements

Minimum entrance requirements for admission to Monash University Australia.

Learning outcomes

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 8 and Monash Graduate Attributes.

Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that you will be able to:

1.

identify and explain the social underpinnings of family violence, current criminal justice responses, and the gendered frameworks critical for family violence prevention and social transformation

2.

access, critically appraise and integrate knowledge about family violence responses and prevention in a wide range of social, cultural, occupational and institutional contexts and demonstrate autonomy, insight and interpretative capacity about the applicability of such knowledges across all relevant domains;

3.

apply research skills to investigate, analyse and synthesise information, problems, concepts and theories related to specific areas of family violence responses and prevention

4.

identify, recommend and source or provide critical information about preventative programs and social transformation advice within a range of industries and workplaces

5.

apply critical and creative skills to respond to family violence prevention challenges with recognition of the specific and local dimensions and the need for engaged and responsible action across the whole of society.