Course

Child and Youth Care Practice: Advanced

Faculty
Applied Community Studies
Department
Child and Youth Care
Course Code
CYCC 2450
Credits
3.00
Semester Length
15 Flexible delivery ranging over 2 to 15 weeks
Max Class Size
32
Method(s) Of Instruction
Lecture
Typically Offered
To be determined

Overview

Course Description
This course provides students with an opportunity to consolidate and enhance child and youth care practice skills. Using current and emerging theory and practice, students will be supported in the application of skills to new settings and in the development of additional skills. The primary focus of the course will be children, youth and families at risk.
Course Content

The following global ideas guide the design and delivery of this course:

  • A significant number of children and youth with whom Child and Youth Care Counsellors work are “at risk”. The issues of the population of children and youth at risk include: learning disabilities, ADHD and/or neuromotor difficulties; fetal alcohol syndrome, depression and potential suicide; street life; abuse; delinquency; post traumatic stress disorder, family crisis, poverty, etc.
  • Child and youth care counsellors work in and with a variety of systems. An understanding of a work setting and the ability to collaborate with other systems is an essential aspect of CYCC work.
  • Stress and crisis are often major causal factors of increasing difficulties in the lives of children, youth and families. Effective response to stress and crisis by CYCC’s can support children, youth and families to adapt to difficult circumstances, to seek additional support where necessary, and to discover effective means to cope and change.
  • Children, youth and families and CYCC’s have a diversity of: culture; religion; family structure; sexual orientation and socioeconomic conditions. Recognition of and response to diversity is central to effective working relationships between children, youth, families and workers.
  • A sense of loss is felt by many individuals and families for a variety of reasons. Recognition of a sense of loss and knowledge of the stages of mourning can provide the CYCC with a sense of direction as she/he works with the individual or family. As people work through issues of loss, a sense of hope develops and they discover new possibilities for the future.
  • Assessment is essential to understanding and planning. Children, youth and families are collaborators in the assessment process
  • The ability to participate in a collaborative planning process with the people with whom you are working is necessary.
  • Competent CYCC practitioners must be able to document their work. Documentation, while holding the practitioner accountable and contributing to continuity, also directly impacts the people with whom you are working.  Documentation, reports and course assignments must always respect confidentiality and be mindful of the potential audience.
Learning Activities
  • Lecture
  • Discussions
Means of Assessment

This course will conform to Douglas College policy regarding the number and weighting of evaluations. Typical means of evaluation would include a combination of:

  • Collaborative Learning
  • Research Essays and Reports
  • Field Research
  • Participation
  • Attendance
  • Examinations

This is a letter graded course.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

 

  1. Identify youth at risk due to: learning disabilities, ADHD and/or neuromotor difficulties; fetal alcohol syndrome, depression and potential suicide; street life; abuse; delinquency; post traumatic stress disorder, family crisis, poverty, etc.
  2. Develop practice strategies to work with youth at risk
  3. Describe effective crisis resolution strategies
  4. Design inclusive practice strategies which responded effectively to diversity of: culture; religion; family structure; sexual orientation and socioeconomic conditions
  5. Discuss assessment from the perspective of the child, youth and family
  6. Use the Circle of Courage (belonging, mastery, independence and generosity) in the discussion and design of practices for youth at risk
  7. Inform other practitioners, verbally and in writing, about a specific area of risk and discuss practice options
  8. Discuss and apply selected approaches to counselling children and youth at risk.
Textbook Materials

Textbooks and Materials to be Purchased by Students

T.B.A.

Other texts and materials as assigned.

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 https://www.bctransferguide.ca

Institution Transfer Details for CYCC 2450
Langara College (LANG) LANG GNST 2XXX (3)
University of British Columbia - Okanagan (UBCO) No credit
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) UFV CYC 2XX (3)
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) UFV CYC 410 (3)

Course Offerings

Winter 2024

CRN
Days
Dates
Start Date
End Date
Instructor
Status
CRN
12609
Thu
Start Date
-
End Date
Start Date
End Date
Instructor Last Name
Bates
Instructor First Name
Robert
Course Status
Full
Section Notes

CYCC 2450 001 is restricted to full-time Child and Youth Care degree students.

Max
Enrolled
Remaining
Waitlist
Max Seats Count
32
Actual Seats Count
33
-1
Actual Wait Count
0
Days
Building
Room
Time
Thu
Building
Coquitlam - Bldg. C
Room
C1011
Start Time
13:30
-
End Time
16:20
CRN
Days
Dates
Start Date
End Date
Instructor
Status
CRN
17311
Start Date
-
End Date
Start Date
End Date
Instructor Last Name
Williams
Instructor First Name
Jessica
Course Status
Full
Section Notes

This is a guided study section. Only students pre-approved for this course can register

Max
Enrolled
Remaining
Waitlist
Max Seats Count
0
Actual Seats Count
6
-6
Actual Wait Count
0
Days
Building
Room
Time
Building
Online
Room
ONLINE
-