Advanced Skills with Individuals in Child and Youth Care
Overview
The following global ideas guide the design and delivery of this course:
- Children, youth and parents deserve non-judgmental respect, understanding and appreciation.
- Child and youth care professionals emphasize the importance of building and maintaining relationships with children, youth and families.
- Individual lives are understood within a developmental ecological context and the strengths of the individual are emphasized.
- Empathic communication with the individual creates an understanding of their life.
- Reciprocal case planning including goal setting, evaluation and clear thorough client reports support individuals through the change process.
- Child and Youth Care Counsellors utilize a strength-based approach to family assessment and intervention.
- Child and youth care professional practice includes awareness of self in relationship and an application of theory from an ecological, developmental and behaviour change counselling perspective to meet client needs.
- Competent practice with individuals is an ongoing development and is enhanced by practice, mentoring and ongoing professional development.
- Lecture
- Discussion
- Practice
This course will conform to мÓÆÂÁùºÏ²Ê¹Ù·½ÍøÕ¾ policy regarding the number and weighting of evaluations. Typical means of evaluation would include a combination of:
- Written assignments
- Case evaluation
- Testing
- Group presentations
This is a graded course.
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- be reflective and self aware in professional child and youth care practice
- develop and maintain professional caring relationships that aim to understand, validate and be responsive to the individual
- demonstrate use of basic and advanced helping skills as a child and youth care professional within the helping process
- from a child and youth care perspective, apply theoretical orientations appropriate to client need including:
- developmental theories
- change theories
- ecological, systemic perspectives
- family theories
- counselling theories
- write a client report which includes:
- presenting problems and strengths
- an assessment of needs and assets
- goal setting
- an intervention plan
- evaluation strategies
TBA
Requisites
Course Guidelines
Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.
Course Transfers
These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see
Institution | Transfer Details for CYCC 4467 |
---|---|
Simon Fraser University (SFU) | No credit |
Trinity Western University (TWU) | No credit |
University of Northern BC (UNBC) | No credit |
Course Offerings
Fall 2024
CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
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CRN
33992
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Wed | Instructor Last Name
Chan
Instructor First Name
Justin
|
Course Status
Full
|
CYCC 4467 001 is restricted to full-time CYC degree students. Registration in this course provides registrants with a 'time conflict' error. This error can be disregarded for this course as it is due to a required room booking overlap.
CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
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CRN
33993
|
Wed | Instructor Last Name
Chan
Instructor First Name
Justin
|
Course Status
Full
|
CYCC 4467 002 is restricted to full-time CYC degree students. Registration in this course provides registrants with a 'time conflict' error. This error can be disregarded for this course as it is due to a required room booking overlap.
CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
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CRN
35780
|
Thu | Instructor Last Name
Chan
Instructor First Name
Justin
|
Course Status
Full
|
CYCC 4467 003 is restricted to PT CYC Degree students.
CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
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CRN
35781
|
Thu | Instructor Last Name
Chan
Instructor First Name
Justin
|
Course Status
Full
|
CYCC 4467 004 is restricted to Part Time CYCC students