Graduate Diploma of Family Violence Prevention - 2019

This course will provide you with the opportunity to deepen your skills and understanding of key social frameworks underpinning domestic and family violence. The course will build skills in a range of practice areas reflected in course electives covering 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 by completing this course are transferable across a wide range of professions and occupations where workers encounter domestic and family violence issues.

The course is designed to deliver specialised expertise in the area of family violence prevention. The course objectives focus on the requisite knowledge, skills, attitudes and values required of skilled practitioners working in a range of fields where family violence prevention is or will be occurring.

A key component of the course is the practice-based units that all students must complete. The practicum further develops skills for professionals to respond critically to the current and future needs of their industry, and who are effective - lifelong learners who can realise and capitalise on opportunities afforded by emerging research and prevention initiatives relating to family violence work.

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 8 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 8 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://monash.edu/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html).

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
6. apply knowledge of family violence prevention to a range of professional contexts and apply the principles for making critical and ethical judgements regarding family violence prevention practice.

You must complete seven core units, which provide knowledge, skills, attitudes and values required of skilled practitioners working in a range of fields addressing family violence prevention.

You must complete the following units (48 points):

• APG4223 Gender, violence and society: Understanding social patterns
• APG4224Not offered in 2019 Gender, violence and society: Criminal justice responses
• APG5075 Using data to understand family violence
• APG5076 Health and family violence
• APG5109Not offered in 2019 Family violence prevention practicum (12 points)
• SWM5235Not offered in 2019 Family violence and professional practice
• LAW5469 Family violence, gender and law

You may exit this course early and apply to graduate with a Graduate Certificate of Family Violence Prevention after successful completion of the following units (24 points):

• APG4223 Gender, violence and society: Understanding social patterns
• APG4224 Gender, violence and society: Criminal justice responses
• APG5075 Using data to understand family violence
• APG5076 Health and family violence