DFVP20002 - Domestic and Family Violence Responses and Interventions

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General Information

Unit Synopsis

This unit will provide you with specialist knowledge of responses and interventions to domestic and family violence, with a focus on the concepts of risk and safety as they apply to victims and perpetrators in the domestic and family violence context. Critical use is made of evidence-based research and practice and policy documents addressing domestic and family violence issues. This will enable you to explore some of the complex practice and theoretical challenges that arise from working to prevent domestic and family violence at a community level and working with distinct client groups of victims and perpetrators. You will learn more about domestic and family violence as it affects people from vulnerable populations, such as Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Legal and safety considerations that arise from working in this context and ethical, professional and self-management implications for practice are explored in this unit.

Details

Level Postgraduate
Unit Level 8
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites There are no pre-requisites for the unit.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Portfolio 30%
2. Portfolio 30%
3. Written Assessment 40%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

Past Exams

Previous Feedback

Term 1 - 2021 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 4.40 (on a 5 point Likert scale), based on a 31.25% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Student Unit and Teaching Evaluation
Feedback:
 DFVP20002 required us to analyse research, data, systems and organisational practice. This has really helped me with understanding and being more tolerant with other services I am working with through integrated responses to DFV for our clients. My learning has definitely benefited my practice with colleagues and clients.

Recommendation:
 Continue providing learning materials focused on research and organisational practice.

Action Taken:
 Learning materials continued to be provided that focused on research and organisational practice.
Source: Student Unit and Teaching Evaluation
Feedback:
 The practical application of the assignments helped me apply what I learnt in my daily practice with DFV clients and strengthened my practice. I would recommend anyone working in DFV field to do this course. Very well balanced!

Recommendation:
 Continue with the focus on personal professional practice in assessment items.

Action Taken:
 The focus on personal professional practice was maintained in the assessment items.
Source: Student Unit and Teaching Evaluation
Feedback:
 I appreciated the weekly summaries and found them to be comprehensive and in themselves, a resource to draw upon. I think the learning activities within the summaries were a good guide for further reflection on the point of discussion/topic of the week. I also wanted to say that there was so much put into this unit to support students' learning - the printed summaries were supported by pre-recorded video, which was really helpful.

Recommendation:
 Continue providing weekly learning guides, learning activities, and recorded lectures.

Action Taken:
 Weekly learning guides, activities and lectures were all provided for students.
Source: Student Unit and Teaching Evaluation
Feedback:
 I am sorry to say that I did not enjoy the power point assessment task - its just a personal preference. I guess that when I do a power point for work, what I would say is organically structured. Hence my dislike for the assessment - I had to spell out (in the notes section) what I would say.

Recommendation:
 Consider the utility of PowerPoint presentations as an assessment strategy.

Action Taken:
 The PowerPoint presentation was removed as an assessment item.
Source: Student Unit and Teaching Evaluation
Feedback:
 Accessing the library was difficult and I struggled to find the resources I was looking for, however this challenged me to find other ways to find information through google and other academic sites.

Recommendation:
 Embed more information on using the library search function in the Moodle site.

Action Taken:
 Additional information about using the Library website was included in the Moodle site.
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback:
 Students appreciated the focus on practice in their assessment items, as it highlighted the relevance of what they were learning to their work.

Recommendation:
 Continue to provide practice-focused assignments for students.

Action Taken:
 In Progress
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback:
 Students highlighted the strengths of the unit learning material in terms of demonstrating how domestic violence responses are delivered, including practical examples.

Recommendation:
 Continue to provide learning material on the specifics of domestic violence response delivery, and keep updating the material with practice advances and up-to-date practice examples.

Action Taken:
 In Progress
Source: Student evaluation
Feedback:
 Students would appreciate more instructions on the assignment than is provided in written instructions and pre-recorded assessment videos.

Recommendation:
 Hold drop-in sessions specifically for questions on the assignments.

Action Taken:
 In Progress
Unit Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Identify and apply primary, secondary and tertiary prevention responses to domestic and family violence.
  2. Evaluate organisational structures and behaviours which are relevant to and impact upon domestic and family violence prevention and responses.
  3. Analyse and articulate the differences between perspectives on domestic and family violence.
  4. Identify treatment modalities for working with people experiencing/ perpetrating domestic violence with a focus on vulnerable populations.
  5. Self-reflect on values, ethics and perspectives in domestic and family violence contexts.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4 5
1 - Portfolio • • •
2 - Portfolio • • •
3 - Written Assessment • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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1 - Knowledge • • • • •
2 - Communication • • • • •
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills • • • • •
4 - Research • • • • •
5 - Self-management •
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Professional Level
• Advanced Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8
1 - Portfolio • • • • • •
2 - Portfolio • • • • • •
3 - Written Assessment • • • •