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
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
2008	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