WS3022:03
*NOTE* Child Welfare
External
HECS Band 1
Semester 2 external mode.
Staff: Dr T McMahon.
This subject will be an introduction to child welfare practice. It will cover definitions of child maltreatment, child harm and child protection, the history of child welfare and will provide guidelines for working in child welfare.
Learning Objectives:
- to examine critically definitions of child maltreatment, child harm, child abuse and child neglect;
- to become familiar with the history of child welfare in Australia, including a critical understanding of indigenous child welfare and the ‘Stolen Generations’ and child migration;
- to understand the social and political contexts of child maltreatment and child welfare intervention;
- to examine child welfare practice from a social justice perspective, paying particular attention to methods and processes of intervention.
Assessment by project (50%); paper (50%).