Child Abuse Recognition, Investigation, & Protection

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Basic Course (no certificate) = $35.00
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Course Description

Preventing child abuse is everyone's responsibility. This includes law enforcement personnel, educational, medical personnel as well as housewives, friends, and neighbors. Child Abuse education is important so that they may recognize various aspects of child abuse, including neglect, sexual and physical abuse, and other forms of maltreatment.

This course offers basic instruction for students to help them to understand the typical profiles of child abusers and the definitions of various forms and aspects of neglect and abuse. Repercussions for failure to report suspected neglect or child abuse of any form may be punishable by civil or criminal liabilities. Who is required to report child abuse as well as the guidelines and protocols for reporting are addressed in these lessons.

Child Abuse and Prevention Law-enforcement personnel are required to initiate investigations following jurisdictional procedure and protocol. Prosecutors are required to ensure that evidence is admissible in a court of law and that child abuse investigations are completed in a timely manner and as thoroughly as possible. Methods of interviewing children as well adults or suspects are included in this course.

Education and child abuse law enforcement procedures, investigative techniques, filing report guidelines and how surveillance is used to find and charge a suspect are all parts of a child abuse investigation that require teamwork. Learn how to recognize forms of abuse and understand child abuse cases, from crime scene investigation and preserving evidence to charging sexual or physical abuse reports and interrogating a suspect. Preventing child abuse is everyone's responsibility – learn how to spot it and how to stop it.

Course Lessons

Lesson 1: Introduction To Child Abuse Investigation

It is up to the adults to protect the innocents, and to recognize the dangers that harm them as well is to report such conditions to the proper authorities.

Lesson 2: Profiling Child Abusers

Child abusers come in all shapes and sizes, and can be either male or female, young or old, as well as coming from a wide variety of social status environments and structures.

Lesson 3: Defining Child Abuse and Neglect

Today there are different categories of abuse, and each initiates its own type of investigation.

Lesson 4: Recognizing the Basic Signs of Child Abuse

While there are various and basic indicators of abuse that should be recognized, these along do not constitute abuse.

Lesson 5: Assessing Signs of Abuse

Laymen as well as professionals should be able to spot the signs in order to assess the situation in conjunction with other bits and pieces of evidence, including witness statements and victim statements.

Lesson 6: Understanding Munchausen's by Proxy

This is as a condition that finds an adult planning, perpetrating and lying about illness or injuries suffered by a child for the sake of gaining attention.

Lesson 7: Who is Required to Report Child Abuse?

Child abuse reports can originate from a wide variety of people, from the children who are experiencing it to the family members who suspect child abuse and even those who have witnessed events that suggest a strong suspicion of any type or form of child

Lesson 8: Repercussions: Failure to Report and Protecting Reporters

Various procedures have been designed to help those in the professional fields as well as citizens to offer guidance in making a child abuse report.

Lesson 9: Child Abuse Law Enforcement Procedures

Guidelines help law enforcement personnel to make sure that laws, regulations, and statutes are met in order to protect not only suspected child abusers, but their victims and other family members throughout the investigation process.

Lesson 10: The Investigative Process

The most important aspect of a primary investigative or forensic interview is to be able to obtain and preserve the information that the victim alone is able to provide.

Lesson 11: Interviewing Children

The interview process for children contains several different factors that need to be followed, or at least to offer guidelines for a successful interview.

Lesson 12: Alternative Investigation Techniques

Basic techniques and protocol involved in any child abuse investigation case include the taking of photographs, gathering witness statements, and interviewing victims, family members, suspects.

Lesson 13: Confronting a Suspect

The most powerful piece of evidence in any successful conclusion of a child abuse case is the admittance of guilt by a suspect.

Lesson14: Child Abuse Crime Scene Investigation

When searching for evidence at the scene of a crime were homicide or child abuse has occurred, law enforcement officials must adhere to applicable laws of search and seizure when planning a search of any crime scene in their jurisdiction.

Lesson 15: Child Death Investigations

It is often difficult to get to the bottom of the truth in such situations. Investigators use protocol in each situation.

Lesson 16: Teachers and Child Abuse

School districts around the United States have tried to develop protocol and guidelines in order to both educate teachers, teacher's aides, and other school personnel to the signs and symptoms of child abuse.

Lesson 17: Interviewing Parents

Detectives, police officers, and child protective services personnel need to try to put emotion aside and gain the most information from parents as possible in these situations in order to enable them to initiate a productive investigative process.

Lesson 18: Charging a Sexual Abuse Case

The standards for prosecuting a sexual child abuse case differ by state, but in most cases follow a fairly general protocol.

Lesson 19: Charging Physical Abuse or Homicide

Various considerations will determine how a crime is charged, including whether it was deliberate, accidental, depraved or willful.

Lesson 20: Protecting the Children

Knowing the warning signs is the first step toward protecting children, regardless of circumstance.

Optional Certificates Awarded

Certificate of Class Participation
Certificate of Merit

In addition to the standard Certificate of Course Completion, Merit Awards may be issued by the instructor at his/her own discretion and are based on student achievement. Merit awards also incur an additional $30.00 processing fee that covers the customization, printing, and delivery of the award, as well as access to the UniversalClass™ Portfolio Service that documents your achievements online. Official Merit Awards have a serial number that verifies the authenticity of the award (great for employers to verify your achievement).

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Additional Information

Course Title	:	Child Abuse Recognition, Investigation, and Protection
CEU Value	:	1.0 (Continuing Education Units)
Course Number	:	7550243
Course Type	:	General Education
Course URL	:	http://childabuse.onlineclasses.com
Course Rating	:
Instructor	:	Michelle Money
Syllabus	:	View Syllabus
Duration	:	Continuous: Enroll anytime!
Course Fee	:	Basic Course: $35
		with CEUs & Certificate: $60

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This is a non-credit course, and is provided for your personal enrichment. This course is not intended to be a substitute for any state, government, licensing, or educational requirements.

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