
Short course
Identifying and Responding to Domestic and Family Violence
This short online course is designed for health practitioners. Gain practical methods to increase your skills in identifying and responding to domestic and family violence.
Start date
Start anytime
Duration
Fully online - Approx. 45 minutes of learning and 15 minutes of assessments and case studies for each module
Study mode
Online
Fees
$27.5 AUD (inc GST)
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What you will learn
These short e-learning modules provide practical ways that health practitioners can increase their skills in identifying and responding to domestic violence, child neglect, and assess elderly abuse.
There are 10 modules available and each takes approximately one hour to complete. You can choose to complete one or as many modules as you wish.
Available eLearning Modules
Each of the following elearning modules need to be enrolled in separately. Clicking on the enrol now button will give you the options to purchase one or several of the following:
- Identifying and Responding to Domestic and Family Violence
- Identifying People who have used Domestic and Family Violence
- Identifying and Responding to Child Abuse and Neglect
- Providing Trauma and Violence Informed Care in Primary Care
- Addressing Family Violence: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples
- Six Steps to Support you to Assess and Respond to Elder Abuse
- Supporting Primary Care to Implement Family Violence Information Sharing
- Recognising and Responding to DFSV Experienced by Ethnic/Racial Minority Women
- Recognising and Responding to LGBTQA+ People Impacted by DFV
- Identify and respond to intimate partner sexual violence & reproductive coercion
Designed For
Suitable for any registered nurse, GP, student or health care practitioner.
Learning Outcomes
- Strengthen your skills in identifying and responding to domestic and family violence.
- Establish a safe and collaborative environment in order to ask patients about their use of violence, conduct basic risk assessments, and motivate patients towards referrals.
- Learn how to respond safely to child abuse and neglect, and determine when reporting is mandated.
- Implement principles of trauma and violence informed care, and learn how these principles benefit facilitating disclosure, and conducting safety assessments in addition to providing early support.
- Learn how to respond safely and appropriately to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and their families who are at risk of, or are presenting with family violence.
- Strengthen your skills in identifying and responding to elder abuse, or to older persons at risk of violence and abuse.
- Key resources for GPs and GP practices to operate under the Victorian Government's information sharing schemes across the services system in addressing family violence.
Assessment
The assessment is submission of the eLearning self-assessments including case studies. A certificate is provided upon satisfactory completion of each course.
Delivery Mode
Fully online (Approx. 45 minutes of learning and 15 minutes of assessments and case studies for each module).
Students have the flexibility to study in their own time and location.
Accreditation

Who you will learn from
Professor Kelsey Hegarty
Course Director
Kelsey Hegarty holds the joint Chair in Family Violence Prevention at the University of Melbourne and the Royal Women's Hospital. She leads a Centre of Research Excellence to promote Safer Families, and co-chairs the Melbourne Research Alliance to End Violence against Women (MAEVe). Her research includes establishing the evidence base for interventions to prevent violence against women, and interventions around identification of domestic and family violence in primary care settings.
Dr Renee Fiolet
Scholar - Safer Families Centre of Research Excellence
Renee is a nurse, lecturer and research scholar. She is undertaking her PhD with the Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne. Her research involves the co-design of a technological resource for family violence for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Renee has taught extensively in the undergraduate and post-graduate level in nursing and in health research. She is a member of MAEVe and Deputy Chair of the Board for The Centre Against Sexual and Family Violence.
Fees
For Individuals:
The course is online, self-paced, and ready when you are — start anytime.
You will have access to all course materials for a full 12 months.
$27.5 AUD (inc GST)
Please contact Student Support if you have any enquiries.
Group Rates for hospitals or clinics:
Discounted group rates are available for groups for hospitals or clinics.
For enquiries, please reach out to us at mobile-learning@unimelb.edu.au.
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