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SOCIAL SERVICE WORK WITH ABUSE,
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Analyse structural issues related to
abuse, neglect, and violence
level:
6
credit:
9
planned review date:
April 2005
sub-field:
Social Services
purpose:
People awarded this unit standard are able to: analyse
structural issues related to abuse, neglect, and violence in
the historical context, and analyse structural issues related to
abuse, neglect, and violence in the contemporary context.
This is a theory unit standard designed for people working
with abuse, neglect, and violence. It is intended to support
other unit standards within the domain.
entry information:
Open.
accreditation option:
Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA, industry and
teaching professional in the same field from another
provider.
moderation option:
A centrally established and directed national moderation
system has been set up by Community Support Services
ITO Limited (Careerforce).
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special notes:
1
People awarded credit in this unit standard are able to
implement Te Tiriti o Waitangi in the social services
according to the authority and resources available to
them, and are able to demonstrate application of this
competence to the context of assessment for this unit
standard (for further clarification, please refer to Unit
7928, Implement the Treaty of Waitangi in the social
services).
2
Glossary
Abuse, neglect, and violence includes abusive,
neglectful, violent, or controlling behaviour that may be
economic, emotional, physical, social, verbal, spiritual,
and/or sexual in nature. It also includes role abuse,
which means the abuse of power by an individual or
agency that has a professional, service, or statusbased role in relation to survivors. Abuse, neglect, and
violence may occur within or outside of families and
whānau.
Structures may include but are not limited to: cultural,
economic, gender, kinship, legal, political, and social
structures. Structures may include churches, media,
and sports and recreational structures.
Structural issues arise from the functioning of cultural,
economic, gender, kinship, legal, political, and social
structural arrangements in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Structural issues may include but are not limited to:
gender differences in the use of violence; gender
differences in the experience of violence used against
them; ideological bases for violence; patriarchal
structures; power and control based on age, gender,
class, culture, and race; impact of social policy on
individuals, families and whānau; cultural and genderbased perceptions and acceptance of violence as
normal behaviour; modeling of violence as normal or
acceptable behaviour through media and sport.
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Legislative change refers to the enactment of the
Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975, Crimes Amendment Act
(No 3) 1985, Evidence Amendment Act (No 2) 1985,
Summary Proceedings Amendment Act (No 4) 1985,
Children, Young Persons and Their Families Act 1989,
and Domestic Violence Act 1995.
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Resources
Ministerial Advisory Committee on a Māori Perspective
for the Department of Social Welfare. 1988. Puao-TeAta-Tu (day break): The Report of the Ministerial
Advisory Committee on a Māori Perspective for the
Department of Social Welfare. Wellington: Department
of Social Welfare.
United Nations Declarations and Conventions may be
found at the following web site:
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/intlinst.htm
Some of the United Nations Declarations and
Conventions may be found in Te Reo Maori and
English through the following index on the web site for
Te Puni Kōkiri:
http://www.tpk.govt.nz/publish/subjectindex.htm
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Elements and Performance Criteria
element 1
Analyse structural issues related to abuse, neglect, and violence in the historical context.
Range:
traditional cultural perspectives - Māori, one Tauiwi culture;
Evidence is required of one of the range.
Traditional structures may include traditional structures from the country of
origin of the Tauiwi culture.
performance criteria
1.1
Analysis of the historical context of abuse, neglect, and violence identifies
traditional cultural perspectives on abuse, neglect, and violence.
1.2
Analysis of the historical context of abuse, neglect, and violence identifies
traditional structures that modeled and supported the use of abuse, neglect,
and violence.
1.3
Analysis of the historical context of abuse, neglect, and violence explains power
relationships that enabled traditional structures to model and support the use of
abuse, neglect, and violence.
Range:
power relationships - hierarchical; patriarchal; power relationships
based on age, gender, class, culture, sexual orientation, race.
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1.4
Analysis of the historical context of abuse, neglect, and violence explains the
impact of traditional structures on power and control within interpersonal
relationships.
Range:
1.5
Analysis of the historical context of abuse, neglect, and violence explains ways
in which power and control were used within kinship relationships.
Range:
1.6
interpersonal relationships may include but are not limited to marital,
intergenerational
family/whānau
relationships,
employer/employee.
ways in which power and control were used within kinship
relationships may include but are not limited to - economic abuse,
emotional abuse, isolation, intimidation, legal, male privilege,
mental abuse, ownership, physical abuse, sexual abuse, threats.
Analysis of the historical context of abuse, neglect, and violence explains ways
in which power and control were used within a wider context.
Range:
ways in which power and control were used within a wider context
- may include but are not limited to - economic, homophobia,
political, racism, rape by strangers, rape within warfare, sexism.
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element 2
Analyse structural issues related to abuse, neglect, and violence in the contemporary
context.
Range:
contemporary cultural perspectives - Māori, one Tauiwi culture.
Evidence is required of one of the range.
performance criteria
2.1
Analysis of the contemporary context of abuse, neglect, and violence identifies
contemporary cultural perspectives on abuse, neglect, and violence.
2.2
Analysis of the contemporary context of abuse, neglect, and violence identifies
structures that model and support the use of abuse, neglect, and violence.
2.3
Analysis of the contemporary context of abuse, neglect, and violence explains
power relationships that enable structures to model and support abuse, neglect,
and violence.
Range:
2.4
power relationships - hierarchical; patriarchal; power relationships
based on age, gender, class, culture, sexual orientation, race.
Analysis of the contemporary context of abuse, neglect, and violence explains
the impact of social structures on power and control within interpersonal
relationships.
Range:
interpersonal relationships may include but are not limited to marital,
intergenerational
family/whānau
relationships,
employer/employee.
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2.5
Analysis of the contemporary context of abuse, neglect, and violence explains
ways in which power and control are used within kinship relationships.
Range:
2.6
Analysis of the contemporary context of abuse, neglect, and violence explains
ways in which power and control are used within a wider context.
Range:
2.7
ways in which power and control are used within kinship
relationships may include but are not limited to - economic abuse,
emotional abuse, isolation, intimidation, legal, male privilege,
mental abuse, ownership, physical abuse, sexual abuse, threats.
ways in which power and control are used within a wider context
may include but are not limited to - economic, homophobia,
political, racism, rape by strangers, rape within warfare, sexism.
Analysis of structural issues related to abuse, neglect, and violence from
historical and contemporary perspectives identifies significant legal and social
changes in terms of recognition of abuse, neglect, and violence.
Range:
significant legal and social changes in terms of recognition of
abuse, neglect, and violence may include but are not limited to abolition of child labour, abolition of the rule of thumb, legislative
changes, Mary Ellen case, migration, Puao te Ata Tu, United
Nations Declarations and Conventions, urbanisation.
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Comments to:
Careerforce
PO Box 2637
Wellington 6140
Please Note:
Providers must be accredited by the Qualifications Authority
before they can offer programmes of education and training
assessed against unit standards.
Accredited providers assessing against unit standards must
engage with the moderation system that applies to those unit
standards. [Please refer to relevant Plan ref: 0222]
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