International Teacher Education Conference 2014 1

International Teacher Education Conference 2014
Healthcare professionals, especially those who work in emergency services are first to come into contact with
victims of aggression. They must have adequate training for the situations they must cope with. In Romania, the
nursing training curriculum includes topics related to family or domestic violence.
A special role lies with health and social care teachers and specialists, who can form students to develop the
abilities necessary for their work practice.
A study carried out in seven European countries with the participation of 104 health and social care teachers
showed that only 13% of respondents consider themselves prepared to teach intimate partner violence and 30%
are completely unprepared.&&
Most participants (39%) believe that after the training they are averagely prepared to teach intimate partner
violence and 37% believe that they are prepared to teach intimate partner violence.
Degree%of%preparation%to%teach%intimate%
partner%violence after%piloting/testing
Not%prepared%to% Not%at%all%
teach% prepared%
8% to%teach%4%
Very%prepared%to%
teach%12%
Averagely%
prepared%to%
teach%
39%
Prepared%to%
teach%37%
During the course of the project "Social and Healthcare Teachers Against Violence, HEVI 2008-2010" some
different teaching resources were given to participants: training manual, audiovisual material, booklets, guidance
manual, literature and recommendations. The suggested teaching methods and activities were : audio-video
based learning problems (case studies), reflective study journal and inner dialogue in writing, "climbing"
method, "brainstorming", "world association" method, "four corners" exercise, "true or false" method, "power
and control wheel" method, "study cafe" method, the "working group" method, "photographing wounds" method
and role play (with different variants).
Among these, we chose to present the audiovisual method , the method of " climbing ", the role play and the
case study .
The audio-visual method uses animated films or educational films which illustrate conflicts and their
deployment. Although they have a strong emotional impact , they allow the teacher to analyze the situations
revealed in the film and to develop solving scenarios together with the students.
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