As part of our commitment to creating lasting impact, the CABHRI team offers courses designed to inspire change in the classroom.
Featured Course
Preventing Childhood Abuse and Trauma: Advanced Theory and Practice
(Register in Agora under "SCWK 7799: Independent Study: Practice Sequence"; runs as a normal class)
This course is focused on the topic of child abuse and trauma prevention using a socio-ecological lens and a public health/social work/social justice approach.
Child physical abuse will be used as the primary case example for applying this approach. The class will start broadly, considering children’s rights and positionality nationally and globally.
We will also cover key elements of prevention practice and theory and how it converges with social work. We will then apply these elements to the topic of child abuse, related trauma, and the intersections of this topic with racism, sexism, adultism, and other forms of privilege and oppression. With this, we will cover topics such as the history and normativeness of hitting children for discipline, harms associated with this practice (e.g., risk for reportable child maltreatment, other adverse childhood experiences (ACES), etc) and changes in this practice and related policies across nations and cultures over time.
We will cover evidence-based and evidence-informed practices, from clinical to macro perspectives (e.g., parenting interventions focused on positive parenting techniques, organizational bystander interventions, and policy changes), including both national and global efforts, using both a scientific and a social justice lens.
Student Testimonial
“The course was really unique, thought-provoking, empathetic, and interactive! It was deeply engaging, flexible and guided, personalized to our own interests."
- Vannah Caumeran MSW'25
Clinical, Health
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BCSSW Required Courses
An introduction to research methods and statistical analysis of social work data. The course covers basic methods of social research including principles of research investigation, research design and problem formulation, survey methods, sampling, measurements, and the use of a statistical software package for descriptive and basic inferential statistics for data analysis and hypothesis testing.
This course is offered every fall semester to Graduate students in the School of Social Work.
This course is intended for second-year MSW students.
This course is designed to provide doctoral students with a foundational understanding of essential research methods employed by social scientists, and an opportunity to apply what they learn. This seminar begins with a discussion of how to define, conceptualize and formulate research questions and hypotheses, operationalize variables, and use valid and reliable measures. We will explore experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational research designs, as well as qualitative and mixed methods designs. The fundamentals of sampling as well as data collection methods and modes will be covered. Essentials of conducting ethical research focused on optimizing human rights, social justice, and trauma stewardship will be reviewed. The study of this array of social and behavioral research methods will provide a solid platform on which to build and hone the specific set of methodologies and techniques required for future research projects.
This course is offered every fall semester to Graduate students in the School of Social Work.
This course is intended for doctoral students.
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