Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect (30 clock hours)

This course meets the Washington OSPI child abuse and neglect clock hour requirements.

If you have taken this course for graduate credit through ArmchairEd, you cannot take the same course for clock hours through ArmchairEdClockHours.

Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect 

This course is a comprehensive on child maltreatment.  Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect provides a comprehensive look at children’s services. It explains management procedures and focuses on how various professionals become involved in the child protection process and in turn how treatment is undertaken. The course provides a comprehensive overview of functional and dysfunctional families and contrasts healthy child development with development hampered by abuse.

Learning Goals for this course:

• Be familiar with the full range of services for children from the least intrusive to the most comprehensive.
• Understand the effect that various services will have on children and families.
• Have a sense of what it might be like to serve children in various agency settings.

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