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Video Resource: Domestic Violence History

Description: Provides a brief description of domestic violence between men and women.
Learning Objective: 1-4: Summarize the historical events that have led to the discovery and recognition of intimate partner violence and sexual assault of women.

Video Resource: CBS News Uncovering Elder Abuse

Description: A story about a woman that experienced elder abuse and died as a result. Provides an overview of a program that evaluates whether elder abuse is occurring
Learning Objective: 1-5: Identify and discuss the VMIR forms of abuse and victim groups that are less well recognized in today’s society including elder abuse, LGBTQ violence, and male victims of IPV and sexual assault.

Video Resource: Shocking Social Experiment on the Rise of Female Violence

Description: Experiment documenting the difference in strangers’ reactions to a female slapping a boyfriend and a boyfriend slapping a girlfriend. Strangers help female victim but ignore male victim.
Learning Objective: 1-5: Identify and discuss the VMIR forms of abuse and victim groups that are less well recognized in today’s society including elder abuse, LGBTQ violence, and male victims of IPV and sexual assault.

Web Resource: CCF Online Symposium on Intimate Partner Violence

Description: Includes text of six presentations related to intimate partner violence including: sexual assault rates (on campus and off), an introduction to intimate partner violence, sexual assault on campus, prevalence of intimate partner violence for women enrolled and not enrolled in universities, a review of national crime victimization findings on rape and sexual assault, and interpersonal violence and crime rates.
Learning Objective: 1-4: Summarize the historical events that have led to the discovery and recognition of intimate partner violence and sexual assault of women.

Web Resource: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Intimate Partner Violence: Prevention Strategies

Description: Briefly describes the goal of preventing IPV and prevention programs. Provides a list of online resources, books, and articles on prevention programs.
Learning Objective: 1-7. Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that have been developed to address VMIR.

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Web Resource: National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Measuring Intimate Partner (Domestic) Violence

Description: Lists major national surveys with links to the measures as well as links to reports that discuss how intimate partner violence is measured.
Learning Objective: 2-3: Compare and contrast the important data sets and self-report survey instruments used in VMIR research.

Video Resource: A Culture of Violence

Description: In the South Pacific island nation of Papua New Guinea, one of the world’s most violent places, nearly every woman has experienced some form of domestic abuse.
Learning Objective: 2-1: Describe the various explanations for VMIR that have been proposed including structural characteristics of intimate relationships, cultural acceptance of violence, the low costs of intimate violence, and the intergenerational transmission of VMIR.

Video Resource: ABC News Former Giants Kicker Sidelined Over Domestic Abuse Scandal

Description: Describes NFL kicker’s alleged physical abuse toward his wife that occurred for several years. NFL also under fire for not handling the consequences appropriately.
Learning Objective: 2-1: Describe the various explanations for VMIR that have been proposed including structural characteristics of intimate relationships, cultural acceptance of violence, the low costs of intimate violence, and the intergenerational transmission of VMIR.

Video Resource: John Hamel: Partner Abuse State of Knowledge

Description: Interview with John Hamel who is the lead of Partner Abuse State of Knowledge (PASK) project and its findings in research.
Learning Objective: 2-4: Identify the various methodological issues relevant in conducting research on VMIR including those related to defining VMIR, establishing cause-and-effect relationships, and research designs.

Video Resource 4: Partner Abuse State of Knowledge (PASK) Findings and Policy Implications

Description: John Hamel provides brief overview of the Partner Abuse State of Knowledge (PASK) project findings. Describes policy implications resulting from the findings.
Learning Objective: 2-4: Identify the various methodological issues relevant in conducting research on VMIR including those related to defining VMIR, establishing cause-and-effect relationships, and research designs.

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Web Resource: The National Child Traumatic Stress Network Physical Abuse

Description: Provides information and resources about physical abuse and interventions for physically abused children.
Learning Objective: 3-4: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that have been developed to address child physical abuse including evidence of their effectiveness.

Web Resource: NPR Child Abuse and Neglect Laws Aren’t Being Enforced

Description: According to a study by the Children’s Advocacy Institute at the University of San Diego School of Law, laws intended to protect children from abuse and neglect are not properly being enforced.
Learning Objective: 3-4: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that have been developed to address child physical abuse including evidence of their effectiveness.

Video Resource: Is Child Abuse a Vicious Cycle?

Description: Provides an overview of negative outcomes of childhood abuse and the findings of a recent study from the Journal of Science regarding the cycle of abuse.
Learning Objective: 3-3: Summarize the consequences of child physical abuse including both short- and long-term outcomes.

Video Resource: Adam’s Story: It Follows Me Around

Description: This video gives an overview of Adam’s experience. It shows how his dad used to get angry and hit him whenever he had a drink and the effect it had on Adam
Learning Objective: 3-3: Summarize the consequences of child physical abuse including both short- and long-term outcomes.

Video Resource: University Health System KENS-5 Presents: Shaken Baby Simulator

Description: Describes a high-tech doll that can be used to demonstrate how adult frustration and shaking a baby can damage a child’s life in a matter of seconds.
Learning Objective: 3-1: Describe the definition and scope of child physical abuse including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse.

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Web Resource: Darkness to Light: End Child Sexual Abuse

Description: Website dedicated to ending and preventing child sexual abuse. Provides a variety of resources including statistics of child sex abuse, risk factors, consequences, how to get help, and education and training.
Learning Objectives: 4-1: Describe the definition and scope of child sexual abuse including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse; 4-2: Identify the various risk factors associated with child sexual abuse; 4-3: Summarize the consequences of child sexual abuse including both short- and long-term outcomes; 4-4: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that have been developed to address child sexual abuse including evidence of their effectiveness.

Web Resource: When the Legal System Disappoints A Victim of Child Sex Abuse

Description: NPR audio of Tennessee Watson, a woman who was molested as a young gymnast by her coach. She discusses how child sex abuse cases make it through the legal system.
Learning Objective: 4-4 Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that have been developed to address child sexual abuse including evidence of their effectiveness.

Video Resource: CBS Child Sexual Abuse & Sports: Resources

Description: Discussion of preventing and red flags of sexual abuse between teachers and students
Learning Objective: 4-2: Identify the various risk factors associated with child sexual abuse.

Video Resource: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: Reducing the Risk

Description: In a video by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), Professor Richard Wortley and NSPCC’s Jon Brown discuss the situational factors which can help prevent child sexual abuse.
Learning Objective: 4-4: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that have been developed to address child sexual abuse including evidence of their effectiveness.

Video Resource: Tom’s Secret: What is Sexual Abuse?

Description: Produced by the Israeli Association of Rape Crisis Centers in cooperation with L. Raphael Geneve as part of a global initiative to increase awareness to child sexual abuse, this video describes what sexual abuse is in an animated video with a character named Tom.
Learning Objective: 4-4 Describe the definition and scope of child sexual abuse including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse.

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Web Resource: Child Welfare Information Gateway: What is Child Abuse and Neglect?

Description: This website provides fact sheets about how abuse and neglect is defined in federal law, the major types of abuse and neglect, recognizing signs of abuse and neglect, long-term consequences, and how to prevent abuse and neglect.
Learning Objectives: 5-1: Describe the definition and scope of child neglect including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse; 5-3: Summarize the consequences of child neglect including both short- and long-term outcomes; 5-4: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that have been developed to address child neglect including evidence of their effectiveness.

Web Resource: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act

Description: Overview of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act and provides definitions, statistics, grants, and programs dedicated to abuse and neglect prevention and treatment.
Learning Objectives: 5-1: Describe the definition and scope of child neglect including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse; 5-4: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that have been developed to address child neglect including evidence of their effectiveness.

Video Resource: Child Abuse Prevention Public Service Announcement

Description: Video provides definitions and statistics of child abuse and neglect and brief stories of two children.
Learning Objective: 5-1: Describe the definition and scope of child neglect including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse.

Video Resource: PBS Child Abuse Prevention Month video

Description: Amigos for Kids president, Rosa Maria Pasencia, discusses the importance of fostering healthy and safe environments for children.
Learning Objective: 5-4: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that have been developed to address child neglect including evidence of their effectiveness.

Video Resource: Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University: The Science of Neglect

Description: Video explains why significant deprivation and neglect is harmful in the earliest years of life and why effective interventions are likely to pay significant dividends in better long-term outcomes in learning, health, and parenting of the next generation.
Learning Objective: 5-3: Summarize the consequences of child neglect including both short- and long-term outcomes.

Video Resource 4: When to Contact Child Protective Services

Description: An interview with retired FBI SSA Jim Clemente about the appropriate time to call CPS.
Learning Objective: 5-4: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that have been developed to address child neglect including evidence of their effectiveness.

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Web Resource: Healthy Place: What is Child Psychological Abuse?

Description: This website provides a description of psychological abuse, types of psychological abuse, outcomes, risk factors, and treatment for psychological abuse.
Learning Objectives: 6-1: Describe the definition and scope of child psychological maltreatment including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse; 6-2: Identify the various risk factors associated with child psychological maltreatment; 6-3: Summarize the consequences of child psychological maltreatment including both short- and long-term outcomes; 6-4: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that have been developed to address child psychological maltreatment including evidence of their effectiveness.

Web Resource: Prevent Child Abuse America Fact Sheet: Emotional Child Abuse

Description: A fact sheet that provides an overview of emotional abuse.
Learning Objectives: 6-1: Describe the definition and scope of child psychological maltreatment including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse; 6-3: Summarize the consequences of child psychological maltreatment including both short- and long-term outcomes; 6-4: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that have been developed to address child psychological maltreatment including evidence of their effectiveness.

Web Resource: The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children

Description: The APSAC website provides information about the organization, events, publications related to child abuse, and resource for educators and families. Has many additional links to other websites related to child abuse.
Learning Objectives: 6-1: Describe the definition and scope of child psychological maltreatment including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse; 6-4: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that have been developed to address child psychological maltreatment including evidence of their effectiveness.

Video Resource: The Developmental Cost of Emotional Abuse for Children

Description: Dr. Sylvia Gearing discusses the effects that emotional abuse has on children.
Learning Objective: 6-3: Summarize the consequences of child psychological maltreatment including both short- and long-term outcomes.

Video Resource: When Does Parenting Cross the Line into Psychological Abuse

Description: In a news segment, Dr. Gregory Jantz shares insight into when parenting crosses the line into psychological abuse.
Learning Objective: 6-1: Describe the definition and scope of child psychological maltreatment including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse.

Video Resource 4: What is Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?

Description: The Texas Children’s Advocacy Centers (CACs) video describes Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), a type of therapy used with children who are abused.
Learning Objective: 6-4: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that have been developed to address child psychological maltreatment including evidence of their effectiveness.

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Web Resource: National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Teen Dating Violence

Description: This website provides information about teen dating violence as well as information about prevention, prevalence, risk, and protective factors. Additional resources such as webinars and links are included.
Learning Objectives: 7-1: Describe the definition and scope of peer sexual harassment, sexual assault, and teen dating violence including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse; 7-2: Identify the various risk factors associated with peer sexual harassment, sexual assault, and teen dating violence; 7-4: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that focus on peer sexual harassment, sexual assault, and teen dating violence including evidence of their effectiveness.

Web Resource: Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual Assault (WCASA) Teen Sexual Assault and Abuse

Description: This website includes fact sheets with prevalence rates of teen sexual assault and abuse.
Learning Objective: 7-1: Describe the definition and scope of peer sexual harassment, sexual assault, and teen dating violence including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse.

Video Resource: CBS Teen Dating Violence: What Parents Need to Know

Description: Massachusetts teens from Lincoln Sudbury High School’s Mentors in Violence Prevention, Boston’s Start Strong program and Shawsheen Regional Technical High School talk about healthy relationships, how to breakup safely, and the subtle warning signs for parents.
Learning Objective: 7-2: Identify the various risk factors associated with peer sexual harassment, sexual assault, and teen dating violence.

Video Resource: CBS: Book Reveals “Shocking” Sexual Harassment in Social Media Lives of Teens

Description: Journalist Nancy Jo Sale discussed her book about young women that are cyberbullied and sexually harassed on social media.
Learning Objective: 7-1: Describe the definition and scope of peer sexual harassment, sexual assault, and teen dating violence including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse.

Video Resource: Campus Sexual Assault: Two Survivors Stories

Description: In this CBS video, Irika Sargent describes two cases of sexual assaults on college campuses and how changes in the law could help victims.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Summarize the consequences of peer sexual harassment, sexual assault, and teen dating violence.

Video Resource 4: PBS Teen Sexual Harassment at Work

Description: Describes the underreported phenomenon of teen sexual harassment in the workplace. In the video, the senior correspondent Maria Hinojosa speaks to teens who share their story. She tracks the legal journeys to justice and discusses how the issue impacts teens across the country.
Learning Objective: 7-3: Summarize the consequences of peer sexual harassment, sexual assault, and teen dating violence.

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Web Resource: Office of Women’s Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Womenhealth.gov

Description: This website includes information about domestic and intimate partner violence and resources for victims if they need help.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Describe the definition and scope of intimate partner abuse, from the perspective of victimization, including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse.

Web Resource: Curbing Intimate Partner Violence is a Tall Task

Description: This Pacific Standard magazine article describes two studies that examined prevention and intervention for domestic violence victims the effectiveness of each.
Learning Objective: 8-4: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that focus on IPV victims including evidence of their effectiveness.

Video Resource: What I See: A Domestic Violence Short Film

Description: This video illustrates Paul, a respected member of society. Behind closed doors, his wife and son know a different man. This illustrates physical and emotional abuse through the child’s eyes.
Learning Objective: 8-3: Summarize the consequences of IPV for victims.

Video Resource: Program Aims to Protect More Domestic Violence Victims

Description: This brief news segment describes a program that would allow officers to prevent deaths related to domestic violence through a program called Lethality Assessment. This assessment would require officers to sit down with domestic violence victims and asks them series of questions to determine their risk.
Learning Objective: 8-4: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that focus on IPV victims including evidence of their effectiveness.

Video Resource: What is Domestic Violence?

Description: In this video Karen Borders, a domestic violence expert, provides an overview on domestic violence, describes what it looks like, and who it affects.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Describe the definition and scope of intimate partner abuse, from the perspective of victimization, including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse.

Video Resource: The Pentagon Channel Recognizes Domestic Violence Awareness Month

Description: Kenya Fairley, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, Glenna Tinney, Battered Women's Justice Project, and Brian Namey, National Resource Center on Domestic Violence and the National Network to End Domestic Violence, discuss on of the most insidious and common crimes worldwide: domestic violence.
Learning Objective: 8-1: Describe the definition and scope of intimate partner abuse, from the perspective of victimization, including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse.

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Web Resource: National Institute of Justice (NIJ) CrimeSolutions.gov

Description: This website is a reliable to help understand what works in justice-related programs and practices. The purpose is to assist in practical decision-making and program implementation by gathering information on specific justice-related programs and practices and reviewing the existing evaluation and meta-analysis research against standardized criteria. A list of intervention programs and practices, along with the research that supports their effectiveness, are listed for victims and perpetrators.
Learning Objective: 9-3: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that focus on perpetration of intimate partner abuse in adult relationships including evidence of their effectiveness.

Video Resource: PBS Newshour: I’m Not Sure We’ll Ever Eliminate Domestic Violence

Description: President Clinton responds to a question about domestic violence. He reports that domestic violence affects a “staggering” number of women around the world, and that he is not sure if it will ever be eliminated since a large amount of violence in every society is within the home.
Learning Objective: 9-1: Describe the definition and scope of intimate partner abuse in adult relationships, from the perspective of perpetration, including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse.

Video Resource: Domestic Violence of Abusers

Description: This video discusses various risk factors associated with perpetration of intimate partner abuse.
Learning Objective: 9-2: Identify the various risk factors associated with perpetration of intimate partner abuse in adult relationships. Perpetrators share causes of why they engaged in intimate partner violence.

Video Resource: AVA Project: Working with Perpetrators of Domestic Violence

Description: In this video, Listen to Respect, the UK membership organization for working with domestic violence perpetrators, talk about how to work with perpetrators and what support is available for those abusing their partners.
Learning Objectives: 9-1: Describe the definition and scope of intimate partner abuse in adult relationships, from the perspective of perpetration, including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse; 9-3: Discuss the various intervention and prevention efforts that focus on perpetration of intimate partner abuse in adult relationships including evidence of their effectiveness.

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Web Resource: National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse (NCPEA): Domestic Violence

Description: This website provides an overview of domestic violence in the elderly. Resources are listed to learn more about this topic.
Learning Objective: 10-1: Describe the definition and scope of intimate abuse of people with disabilities and the elderly including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse.

Web Resource: Washington Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs

Description: Prevalence rates of domestic and sexual violence against people with disabilities are reported. Additional content and web resources are provided.
Learning Objective: 10-1: Describe the definition and scope of intimate abuse of people with disabilities and the elderly including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse.

Video Resource: Experts Discuss Elderly Domestic Abuse

Description: This news segment describes a 73-year-old man charged with the murder of his 70-year-old wife. The Vice President of Counseling Services of the YWCA answers questions about misconceptions of domestic abuse in the elderly.
Learning Objective: 10-3: Summarize the consequences associated with abuse of people with disabilities and the elderly.

Video Resource: Intimate Partner Sexual Assault Services for Women with Disabilities in Ontario

Description: This short video describes a woman with a disability who experienced intimate partner violence. Statistics of intimate partner violence against women with disabilities are provided.
Learning Objective: 10-1: Describe the definition and scope of intimate abuse of people with disabilities and the elderly including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse.

Video Resource: Domestic Violence and Disability: Bringing it out of the Shadows

Description: This powerful video illustrates examples of domestic abuse, including physical and psychological, toward a partner in a wheelchair.
Learning Objective: 10-1: Describe the definition and scope of intimate abuse of people with disabilities and the elderly including problems inherent in measuring this form of abuse.

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Web Resource: Voices Against Violence Project

Description: Includes various articles that discuss how normalization of rape in TV shows, movies, jokes we hear, etc. perpetuates inequality and injustice.
Learning Objective: 11-3: Identify the various personal responses that students can engage in to help address the problem of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships.

Web Resource: Parents’ Use of Physical Punishment Increases Violent Behavior Among Youth

Description: This article from the American Psychological Association (APA) summarizes a research study that examined adolescent violence and parents’ use of corporal punishment. Links to additional articles are provided.
Learning Objective: 11-3: Identify the various personal responses that students can engage in to help address the problem of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships.

Web Resource: Violence Against Women is Not a Cultural Tradition but a Crime

Description: This article discusses domestic violence as not only partner-on-partner violence, but also the cycle of violence against women in any relationship. Examples of cases in the United States and internationally are briefly described. It is proposed that education and teaching of gender studies in school may reduce this perpetuation of disrespect and inequality.
Learning Objective: 11-3: Identify the various personal responses that students can engage in to help address the problem of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships.

Video Resource: Domestic Violence Victim Jailed

Description: A Florida court judge sentenced a mother for failing to appear at her abusers’ trial. A panel discusses this case and the legal reasoning behind this action.
Learning Objective: 11-2: Discuss how the values of a society might impact intervention and prevention of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships.

Video Resource: What Would You Do? – Domestic Violence and Abuse in Public (Social Experiment)

Description: This social experiment illustrated how bystanders were much more likely to help a woman being physically abused by a man but very few were likely to help a man being physically abused by a woman.
Learning Objectives: 11-2: Discuss how the values of a society might impact intervention and prevention of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships; 11-3: Identify the various personal responses that students can engage in to help address the problem of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships.

Video Resource: What is Rape Culture?

Description: This video defines rape culture and gives examples of it.
Learning Objectives: 11-2: Discuss how the values of a society might impact intervention and prevention of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships; 11-3: Identify the various personal responses that students can engage in to help address the problem of violence and maltreatment in intimate relationships.