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 Douglas College 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 to Other Institutions
Below are current transfer agreements from Douglas College to other institutions for the current course guidelines only. For a full list of transfer details and archived courses, please see the BC Transfer Guide.
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 2025
CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
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CRN
33992
|
Wed | Instructor last name
Dellebuur O'Connor
Instructor first name
Kristy
|
Course status
Full
|
CYCC 4467 001 is restricted to full-time CYC degree students.
CRN | Days | Instructor | Status | More details |
---|---|---|---|---|
CRN
33993
|
Wed | Instructor last name
Dellebuur O'Connor
Instructor first name
Kristy
|
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.