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Teaching About Child Sexual Abuse by Integrating Criminal Justice and Nursing

NCJ Number
186685
Journal
Journal of Criminal Justice Education Volume: 11 Issue: 2 Dated: Fall 2000 Pages: 327-338
Author(s)
Richard Tewksbury; Deborah Scott
Date Published
2000
Length
12 pages
Annotation
This paper profiles an innovative, interdisciplinary (criminal justice and nursing) course on child sexual abuse.
Abstract
Based on the authors' experiences in developing and presenting the course, this paper focuses on the rationale and structure of such a course, topical issues, learning objectives and activities, student responses to the course, and recommendations for how such a course can be effectively implemented. The course was an outgrowth of both authors' work in the field of child sexual abuse, which included prevention/education, health services, and law enforcement/judicial/legislative training and consulting. The course is a senior-level, interdisciplinary, team-taught honors seminar jointly offered by the School of Nursing and the Department of Justice Administration at the University of Louisville. The course targets students majoring in both nursing and criminal justice; however, honors students in related majors are also encouraged to enroll in the course. The course was designed to guide students in developing expertise in understanding the dynamics, incidence, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and interventions for child sexual abuse. This paper provides a week-by-week listing of course topics and reviews course assignments. The authors believe the course has achieved its objectives in better preparing both criminal justice and nursing students who will be working in the field of child sexual abuse directly, tangentially, or who are likely to encounter child sexual abuse only sporadically throughout their professional or personal lives. 29 references