Educating Undergraduate Students to Work With Children of Abysed Women

摘要

Student learning was assessed in an innovative university-community partnership in which undergraduate students enrolled, first, in a didactic course on intimate partner violence and, subsequently, in a service-learning course where they worked with children living in a shelter for survivors of intimate partner violence. Data were collected at the start and end of the first semester, and at the end of the second semester. Quantitative and qualitative methods indicated that students gained knowledge regarding intimate partner violence, resources available to survivors, and how to respond to a friend in an abusive relationship. The students' perspectives on how they changed as well as the strengths and limitations of this study are discussed.