Course Summary
This online micro-credential will give you a nuanced understanding of how perpetrators of domestic and family violence establish and maintain their abusive tactics. You will learn to recognise how expressions of gender inequality are a driver of violence. This micro-credential will help you understand the dynamics of violence, how individual incidents form part of a pattern of violence and what constitutes coercive control. This micro-credential aligns with a knowledge component required of facilitators (at all levels) and Victim Advocates to help them comply with the requirements of Queensland’s Department of Justice and Attorney-General for funded perpetrator intervention services.
This online micro-credential provides a non-creditable micro-credential and digital badge which can be shared to your social networks and displayed in your professional portfolio.
Requirements - To Be Eligible
For your application to be considered, you must meet the following entry requirements.
Entry RequirementsThere are no specific entry requirements.
Course Details
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For direct access to this micro-credential, visit our Learning Management Site: Be Different. Simply ser up an account on the site to pay and access the micro-credential you wish to study. |
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Student Outcomes, Career Opportunities and Occupations
Undertaking this micro-credential enables students to meet their Continuing Professional Development obligations and industry update requirements in their profession. Upon successful completion of the micro-credential, students will be awarded Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours, a non-creditable micro-credential (Digital Badge) and a Certificate of Completion.
Study Mode Definitions
- Online: Online courses provide the flexibility to study without normally requiring a student to visit a campus. Course content is studied through a number of means including the use of online discussion forums, electronic library resources, by contacting lecturers and teachers, and receiving study materials online/electronically. Work integrated learning, including placements, may be included in some courses.
- On-campus: Students studying in on-campus mode typically are expected to attend and participate in regular, structured on-campus teaching and learning activities throughout the University’s academic term. These activities may include lectures, tutorials, workshops and practice, online or other activities and normally will be timetabled at a CQUniversity campus or approved delivery site.
- Mixed Mode: Students studying in mixed mode will participate in a combination of online learning activities in addition to site-specific learning activities, which may include residential schools, co-op placements and/or work-integrated learning as a compulsory requirement of a unit. The additional site-specific learning activities are what differentiates a mixed-mode unit from an online unit.
*All study modes may include Vocational placement and/or work integrated learning.
Select a course structure below to view the delivery details, including the different study modes offered for each structure.
4 hours
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- Recognise the drivers, dynamics and impacts of domestic and family violence, with a focus on intimate partner abuse
- Identify patterns of violent behaviour in order to assess and intervene appropriately with perpetrators of domestic and family violence
- Recognise the roles in the behaviour change process for perpetrators of domestic and family violence.
Assessment
Online Quiz