CYC 808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Haworth Press, Turnitin, Scottish Social Services Council

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Child and Youth Care
• Course: CYC 808
• Professor: Collen Kamps

Document Summary

This course, founded in contemporary, relational child and youth care practice, explores approaches, strategies, and techniques in residential care. Areas covered will include: characteristics of effective programs, family involvement; Intervention planning: needs based interventions, discipline, activities; and, the role of reflective practice. Grounded in a relational child and youth care approach to working with young people, this course is designed to help the student explore, and learn about, residential care and residential care techniques. In this context, residential care is defined as any environment in which young people live in groups away from their defined family. As such the content of this course is relevant to group home, foster care, residential treatment, kinship care and custody environments. This course is also not just about doing"; mostly it is about that often-neglected area of. This is a part of the process of developing as a reflective practitioner in residential care with youth.