VIOLENCE AND FAMILIES

Course overview

Violence in our society is documented statistically in the FBI Crime Reports and National Crime Surveys and clinically in the number of victims admitted to EDs in trauma centers and hospitals. The possibility that people might be injured or have their home invaded by a stranger is a frightening thought. But hundreds of Americans face an even more devastating reality when they are harmed, not by a stranger, but by someone they trusted: a member of their own family. Learn the scope, trends, and characteristics of family violence, so you can make the appropriate interventions.