Education · Boston College
This course explores the topic of intimate partner violence (IPV), including physical, sexual, and psychological abuse, from ecological and intersectional perspectives. Drawing on IPV as a core example of interpersonal violence more broadly, five central questions of the course will be 1) What are the psychological consequences of trauma in general, and IPV in particular? 2) How do interpersonal, ideological, and institutional factors shape survivors experience of and responses to trauma 3) How have various systems developed to address the complex social problem of IPV, both for good and for i
