Courses Handbook 2007 - [ Archived ]

309049 (v.1) SW 580 - Child Protection


Area:

Department of Social Work and Social Policy

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

2.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Lecture:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Workshop:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Anti Requisite(s):

309024 (v.1) SW 480 - Child Protection or any previous version

Prerequisite(s):

13294 (v.2) Communication Skills 511 or any previous version
AND
13295 (v.2) Counselling Theory and Practice (1) 512 or any previous version
 

Syllabus:

Introduction to the complexity and diversity of recognising and defining behaviours which constitute violence against children, to professional and lay discourses surrounding child maltreatment, to child protection intervention, statutory background of child protection work and the community and media responses that accompany this, and self-care strategies for workers in this field. Students are required to attend one 24-hour week intensive workshop.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

090501 Social Work

Funding Cluster:

05 - Behavioural Science, Social Studies

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2007 Bentley Campus Semester 1       Y  
2007 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

 
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