Intimate Partner Violence Course Online: 3.5 Social Work CPD Hours
Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence is a practical, self-paced CPD course for social workers and social service workers across Canada. Dynamics and coercive control, screening, risk and lethality, safety planning, the legal system, services and diverse experiences. It has nine narrated lessons and a 36-question final exam. Built to align with Canadian social work regulators’ CPD requirements for self-directed learning. Every course gives you what you submit for your CPD record: a certificate with your name, the provider, course title, completion date and CPD hours, plus the course outline, learning outcomes and your exam result.
Domestic and Intimate Partner Violence at a glance
| Detail | Summary |
|---|---|
| Credit | 3.5 instructional hours. Not accredited or approved by any regulator. |
| Format | Online, self-paced: nine narrated lessons (about 230 minutes), exercises, workbook |
| Completion | Pass the 36-question final exam at 80 percent |
| Documentation | Certificate with course title, completion date and 3.5 hours |
| Focus areas | Violence and Safety; Assessment; Law and Systems |
| Level | Professional: registered social workers, social service workers, students and new graduates |
| Price | $39 CAD, or the complete pack of 18 courses for $299 |
What you will learn in this intimate partner violence course
- Define intimate partner violence and its forms.
- Explain power and control as a pattern of tactics.
- Create safe conditions for asking about violence.
- Identify key risk factors for serious and lethal violence.
- Describe how criminal law responds to intimate partner violence.
- Describe the main types of services for people experiencing violence.
- Explain how history, identity and systems shape experiences of violence.
- Describe principles for engaging people who use violence safely.
- Apply the full process to mixed cases of violence.
Intimate Partner Violence course curriculum: nine lessons built around real situations
Short narrated lessons with worked examples and practice pauses, each closing with a knowledge check. Slides and a transcript are included for every lesson.
Lesson 1: What it is, who it affects, and why it matters
Lesson 2: How abuse works
Lesson 3: The first conversation
Lesson 4: Understanding danger and planning for safety
Lesson 5: Helping people understand their options
Lesson 6: Connecting people to what they need
Lesson 7: Intersections of identity, history and place
Lesson 8: Accountability, safety and sustainable practice
Lesson 9: Making it real
Intimate Partner Violence course: 3.5 online CPD hours for Canadian social workers
The course counts as 3.5 instructional hours. Complete every lesson, pass the final exam, download your certificate, and enter the activity in your regulator’s CPD record yourself. Keep the certificate and your notes as evidence.
Built to align with Canadian social work regulators’ CPD requirements for self-directed learning. Every course gives you what you submit for your CPD record: a certificate with your name, the provider, course title, completion date and CPD hours, plus the course outline, learning outcomes and your exam result.
The complete pack gives you all 18 courses and 54 CPD hours with a certificate for each, for $299 CAD. Bought one at a time they would cost $702.
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Intimate Partner Violence course: common questions
Curriculum
- 10 Sections
- 9 Lessons
- Lifetime
- Lesson 1: What it is, who it affects, and why it matters2 Items
- Lesson 2: How abuse works2 Items
- Lesson 3: The first conversation2 Items
- Lesson 4: Understanding danger and planning for safety2 Items
- Lesson 5: Helping people understand their options2 Items
- Lesson 6: Connecting people to what they need2 Items
- Lesson 7: Intersections of identity, history and place2 Items
- Lesson 8: Accountability, safety and sustainable practice2 Items
- Lesson 9: Making it real2 Items
- Final Exam and Certificate1 Item