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AZA3772

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 20 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

South Africa School of Social Sciences

Coordinator(s)

Ms Gugulethu Shange

Offered

South Africa

  • Second semester 2016 (Day)

Notes

The unit may be offered as part of the Summer Arts ProgramSummer Arts Program (http://www.monash.edu/students/courses/arts/summer-program.html).

Synopsis

The student needs to show an ability to integrate all he or she learned and to apply it into a practice setting. They must specifically show the ability to keep process notes and referral reports, participate in case discussions and intake interviews, to be open to supervision, show skill in working within a team context, and show comfort in working within a one-on-one case level as well as on a project or developmental level.

Outcomes

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

  1. Demonstrate integration and application of assessment and intervention knowledge on a child client in practice;
  2. Ability to write process notes, report and refer problems experienced by the child client;
  3. Conduct and participate in intake interviews and case conference discussions;
  4. Make use of supervision;
  5. Demonstrate ability to work in a team context;
  6. Efficiency in moving between micro and macro levels of working with clients.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 70%
Exam: 30%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

  • Additional requirements
  • Field placement

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Rika Swanzen

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

Child and youth development - South Africa

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of second-year Arts units.

Prohibitions

ATS3772, AZA3744