SWK277 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Child Development, Human Services, Risk Management
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Title: working with children, youth and families bbennet1@usc. edu. au. This course covers challenges faced by human services workers and social workers engaged in family work. This course that will explore knowledge and skills necessary for working with children, youth and families from diverse backgrounds in a range of complex practice contexts. Course content: child protection practice, children and young people as carers, social work ethics, social justice and human rights framework in work with families, children and young people. Social work knowledge: child development, parent-child attachment, practice theories and models, family assessment, working with children, working with adolescents. Strategies, techniques and interventions: solution focused approaches, child centred practice, family centred practice, collaborative inter-disciplinary practice, effective communication skills in conducting assessment and intervention. On successful completion of this course you should be able to: You will be assessed on the learning outcome in task/s: Completing these tasks successfully will contribute to you becoming:
