Course
Discontinued
No
Course code
CYCC 1220
Descriptive
Relationship Building with Children and Youth
Department
Child and Youth Care
Faculty
Applied Community Studies
Credits
3.00
Start date
End term
Not Specified
PLAR
No
Semester length
15 weeks
Max class size
35
Course designation
None
Industry designation
None
Contact hours
Lecture:4 hours/week
Method(s) of instruction
Lecture
Learning activities
- Lecture
- Discussion
- Role plays of practice
- Video recordings
Course description
This course is designed to introduce students to the basic theories and practices of relationship-building with children and youth. The course will emphasize the development of professional helping relationships, active listening skills and empathy. From the perspectives of Child and Youth Care and Youth Justice work, students will learn ways of supporting children and youth to explore challenges and to respond to related feelings. Culture and worldview will be viewed as essential elements for understanding and responding to children and youth.
Course content
The following global ideas guide the design and delivery of this course:
- The development of a professional and intentional relationship, with the use of certain counselling skills, is central to engaging children and youth.
- There are multiple approaches to theories about developing a working relationship with supporting children and youth as they move towards change.
- Relationship-building with children and youth is developmentally sensitive. Ways of engaging children and youth are shaped to fit with, and promote, their emotional, social, intellectual, cultural, spiritual and physical development.
- The process of relationship-building with children and youth is aimed at the development of insight into understanding of self and others, and the relationship between self and others, with the goal of enabling children and youth to interact more effectively with their important systems.
- The process of building relationships with children and youth is skill-based. Effective Child and Youth Care practitioners and Youth Justice workers understand and apply certain counselling skills while remaining genuine and personal in their interactions with children and youth.
Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Practice professional behaviour by honouring confidentiality and implementing the principles of Child and Youth Care (CYC) ethical guidelines.
- Explore the impact of self on relational engagement with children and youth.
- Demonstrate a developing awareness and application of relational practice and certain counseling skills.
- Begin to articulate their developing identity as a professional Child and Youth Care and/or Youth Justice practitioner.
- Accept and provide feedback on the use of different relationship-building skills with children and youth and integrate feedback into their learning.
Means of assessment
Instructors may use a student's record of attendance and/or level of active participation in a course as part of the student's graded performance. Where this occurs, expectations and grade calculations regarding class attendance and participation must be clearly defined in the instructor's Course Outline.
Typical evaluation will include:
- Written assignments
- Skill demonstration through audio and video recordings
- Small and large group discussions
- Quizzes and/or exams
This is a letter-graded course.
Textbook materials
Textbooks and materials are to be purchased by students. A list of required textbooks and materials is provided to students at the beginning of the semester.
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None