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SOWK13013 Professional Practice with Children, Youth and Families

Course details

Students should be able to critically analyse the issues and practices for social and welfare workers working with children, young people and families. Participants should be able to explore issues for practice emerging from the multidimensional genesis of child maltreatment and youth at risk with particular relevance to indigenous and other cultural difference. Students should be able to analyse evidence based strategies for appropriate intervention in different contexts.

Students will be required to collate feedback on their professional performance from their lecturer and from other sources, evaluate this feedback and include appropriate strategies in their learning contracts for Fieldwork Education 2.


Course at a glance
Career: Undergraduate
Credit points: 6
Requisites: Successful completion of 48 credit points in any program.
Student Contribution Band: 1
EFTSL: 0.12500
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2012 Term Two FLEX
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