| Title: |
Domestic Violence: Once were Warriors Register Now
|
| Instructor: |
Niki Delson, MSW, LCSW Click to View Biography
|
| Number of CEUs: |
3
|
| Film: |
Once were Warriors (Running Time: 1 hour 42 minutes ~ MPAA Rating: R)
|
| Process: |
Registrants rent the film through a vendor of their choice or library. After taking the pre-test and reading the learning themes online, the registrant obtains and views the film. The registrant returns to the NASW-CA Online Program to take the online post-test and print a certificate of completion. This film is available through Netflix as well as most public libraries.
|
| Price: |
| Certificate: |
$25.00 paid to NASW-CA.
|
| Film Rental: |
Rental fees are determined by the vendor. |
|
| Course
Description: |
This course is based on the New Zealand film "Once were Warriors." It is a disturbing and brutal drama based on the bestselling novel by Alan Duff about a family in a state of perpetual crisis. With harsh yet realistic ferocity, it explores domestic violence, alienation, poverty, cultural oppression, self-medication and the brutal yet seductive spiral of violence. To view a film synopsis, visit: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110729/synopsis.
Social workers, clinicians and mental health providers often hear terrifying stories of abused women and their children who have suffered in the background. This extremely realistic drama about domestic violence will provide registrants with a close-up view of the day-to-day life, struggles and survival strategies of the film’s family members. The cast includes Jake, who is alienated, unemployed, drowning his miseries with his "mates" in the bar; Beth, the physically and sexually abused mother of five who struggles to hold her family together, yet fails to protect them from multiple forms of abuse; and three adolescent children who embark on their normal emancipation process with tragic results.
Warning: This film is painful to watch. The scenes of physical and sexual violence are powerful and gut wrenching.
|
| Target Audience: |
This course is designed for any social work student, professional social worker, or mental health professional who works with clients who are directly or indirectly impacted by domestic violence.
|
| Learning
Objectives: |
- Participants will gain an understanding of the spiral of violence.
- Participants will be able to identify cultural supports for family violence.
- Participants will recognize how the mother failed to protect her children and participated in the escalation of violence.
- Participants will examine how adolescents from this type of family background master the challenges of emancipation.
- Participants will be familiar with the devastating interaction between poverty, alcohol, cultural oppression, and child maltreatment.
|
Course Agenda: |
Click here to view course agenda
|
| Copyright:
|
Copyright© 2010. Revised. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted by the 1976 Copyright Act or in writing the publisher.
|
