In years one and two, foundational courses prepare you to form helping relationships with youth and families through effective communication, understanding of adolescent and lifespan development, family dynamics, and activities programming. Personal and professional development are central themes throughout your course work.
CYCW 100 - Adolescent Development
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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Students begin to examine developmental theory and patterns typical of late childhood and adolescence. Psychosocial development, cognition, spirituality and moral judgment, and physiology, including sexuality are explored. Environmental influences and typical patterns of adolescent behaviour are also considered. Students develop insight into their own style of relating to youth as influenced by their experiences as a young person. Students also acquire frameworks for helping families support youth with normal developmental tasks and fostering resilience in their young people. |
| Prerequisites: N/A |
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CYCW 101 - Helping Skills
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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Students are introduced to the skills of effective relationship building with youth and families. The role of the child and youth care professional in the helping process is also explored. Students practice and demonstrate effective individual counselling skills, from a developmental model of counselling. |
| Prerequisites: N/A |
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CYCW 102 - Integration Seminar
| Hours:0:0:30 |
Credits:1 |
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Students discuss field placement experiences and apply theory and skills from program course work. Professional and ethical conduct in relation to field experience is a focus. Students practice the skills of group work, communication, and leadership at a basic level. |
| Co-requisites: CYCW 103. |
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CYCW 103 - Field Placement
| Hours:0:0:120 |
Credits:2 |
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Students are introduced to the roles and responsibilities of a child and youth care practitioner through field placement. Students participate in therapeutic routines and activities in a work integrated learning environment. This workplace experience fosters the student’s ability to develop an ethical helping relationship and to work on a team of child and youth care professionals in a school, residential, or community program. |
| Co-requisites: CYCW 102. |
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CYCW 104 - Activity Programming
| Hours:15:30:0 |
Credits:2 |
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This experiential course is designed to equip students with the attitudes, conceptual frameworks and skills to develop, lead and evaluate therapeutic activities for children, youth and families. |
| Prerequisites: N/A |
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CYCW 106 - The Child and Youth Care Professional
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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Students explore the professional and ethical tasks of a child and youth care practitioner and the challenges of being a member of this profession. An overview of the needs of youth, the types of agencies providing service and the legal system governing children and youth in Canada is studied. |
| Prerequisites: N/A |
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CYCW 107 - Child and Youth Care Practice
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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This course serves as an introduction to the distinctive domains of Child and Youth Care (CYC) practice. The basic philosophy permeating this course is that there is a set of attitudes, specific knowledge, skills and proficiencies that are uniquely those of the competent CYC practitioner. Areas covered include: relational-centred practice, the therapeutic milieu, understanding diversity and issues of social justice, strength-based intervention, models of planned change, ecological systems perspective, attachment theory, and ethics. Students are also introduced to the concept of praxis as a conceptual tool to think critically about the knowing, doing, and being of CYC practice. |
| Prerequisites: N/A |
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CYCW 108 - Diversity and Difference in Child and Youth Care Practice
| Hours:30:0:0 |
Credits:2 |
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In this course, students critically engage in diversity and difference to increase their awareness of cultural complexities in diverse social environments. Students gain an understanding of the multi-dimensionality of identities and experiences and how they are linked to issues of social justice. Topic areas address the impact of social circumstances upon the lives of children, youth, families and communities from both current and historical perspectives. |
| Prerequisites: N/A |
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CYCW 110 - Integration Seminar
| Hours:0:0:30 |
Credits:1 |
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Students discuss field placement experiences and apply theory and skills from program course work to practice. Professional and ethical conduct in relation to field experience is a focus. Students practice the skills of group work, communication, and leadership at an intermediate level. |
| Prerequisites: CYCW 102.
Co-requisites: CYCW 111. |
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CYCW 111 - Field Placement
| Hours:0:0:120 |
Credits:2 |
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Through continuing participation and co-leadership in routines and activities, this second placement further develops the core skills of a competent child and youth care practitioner. Students advance their skill and knowledge by focusing on relationship as a therapeutic tool. Students are expected to demonstrate creativity in planning activities, to be more independent problem solvers, and to show initiative. |
| Prerequisites: CYCW 102 and CYCW 103.
Co-requisites: CYCW 110. |
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CYCW 112 - Family Dynamics
| Hours:30:0:0 |
Credits:2 |
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Students examine the family as a system within a broader ecological systems context. Students begin with an overview of basic family systems theory and then focus on the application of this core knowledge to their own family of origin. Through this self-study approach, students recognize and explore issues that may affect their ability to work with at-risk youth and families. |
| Prerequisites: N/A |
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CYCW 114 - Individual Counselling
| Hours:45:0:0 |
Credits:3 |
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Students continue to study the developmental model of individual counselling. Specific skills are taught that allow students to assist youth and adult clients in fully exploring and clarifying problem situations and missed opportunities in their lives; and to challenge their limited perspectives and access personal strengths, competencies and capabilities. Students are introduced to the solution-focused approach to helping, life space counselling, and spirituality in the helping process. |
| Prerequisites: CYCW 101. |
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