Undergraduate - UnitAZA3769 - Family functioning and child abuse: The child and youth care worker's role

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Offered	Not offered in 2014
Coordinator(s)	Dr Rika Swanzen

Synopsis

The student needs to understand his or her role within a multi-disciplinary team working with dysfunctional families. The students will learn how to evaluate family functioning through the 'Person-in-Environment Classification System' and the Family and Community Functioning Model. Inadequate family boundaries cause a decrease in the security of children and for social ills such as child abuse to occur. The student will be oriented to the role of the child care worker in this problem.

Outcomes

On successful completion of the unit, students will be able to:

Understand the principles of ecological assessments;
Utilizing frameworks for evaluating family functioning within their environmental context;
Discover family strengths and parenting styles;
Learn about child abuse types and how to approach it through child-friendly therapeutic aids;
Familiarise themself with programmes, aimed at preventative education that can be used in organisations and schools;
Show efficiency in basic value-based sex education.

Assessment

Tutorial Contribution (900 words): 20%
Major essay (1,350 words): 30%
Examination (3 hours): 50%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Rika Swanzen

Workload requirements

One 2-hour lectures per week
One 1-hour tutorial per week

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Child and youth development

Prerequisites

First year sequence in Child and Youth Development

Prohibitions

ATS3769