Target audience: Social Workers, Psychologists, Counselors, Marriage & Family Therapists, Addiction Counselors
Course Description, Hours: 10.5 CEs
In Honor Betrayed, Dr. Mic Hunter probes beyond the headlines to reveal the reality of sexual abuse in the military. The culture of the military’s training is to turn recruits into those who follow orders without question. Honor Betrayed describes in detail the gross realities of the hostile, uber-masculine, dehumanizing environment our young men and women confront. Most vulnerable to sexual abuse are minorities-particularly women and homosexuals. Included are first-person accounts from American servicewomen and men who were sexually abused by their comrades, including one woman whose case was heard before the U.S. Supreme Court. Hunter also explores the tacit acceptance of these incidents in the military to the recent prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq.
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Course Format
This course contains a link to the book on Amazon and a test. When you’re ready, purchase the course by clicking the “Buy Now” button below. Once you have read the materials, login and go to “My Profile” to take the quiz and print your certificate for CE credits. A minimum score of 80% is required on the exam in order to be accepted by most state and national boards.
Course Objectives
The participant will be able to identify or demonstrate familiarity with:
- Why it happens
- Incentives for enlisting
- The military culture
- “A Band of Brothers”: The code of hypermasculinity
- Hazing: “What goes around comes around”
- Prostitution: The necessary evil?
- A man’s home is his castle: Acceptance of domestic violence
- When Janie comes marching home again: Women in the military
- The fag of war: Homophobia in the military
- Déjà vu: characteristics found both in abusive families and in the military
- “Can’t ya take a joke?”: Sexual harassment
- Sexual assault within the ranks
- The impact of sexual abuse
- Factors that affect the impact of sexual abuse
- The offender mentality
- The impact of sexual abuse on the military as a whole
- The times, they are a-changin’
- What the military can do to reduce sexual abuse and secondary victimization
- How it happens-personal stories of sexual abuse
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