ED5859 - Atypical Development
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 4 |
| Administered by: | School of Education |
Available to Master of Guidance and Counselling and Master of Education Guidance Counselling students.
This subject draws on an understanding of typical human development to investigate atypical human development. Using a combination of theory and case-studies, skills in identifying and options for addressing an individual's educational, social and other needs due to their disability or psychopathology will be developed. To enable targeted study this subject offers streams in four age points; older adult, younger adult, adolescent, and childhood.
Learning Outcomes
- be knowledgeable of normal patterns of human development;
- be able to define and recognise a range of major psychopathologies and disabilities;
- be able to identify and conceptually address areas of skill strength and deficit.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
- The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
- The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area.
Availabilities | |
| External, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 27-Mar-2009 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Raoul Adam |
| Lecturer: | Ms Sophie Bitner. |
| Method of Delivery: | Printed materials |
| Assessment: | multidraft Essays. |
| JCU Singapore, Limited, Study Period 51 | |
| Census Date 27-Mar-2009 | |
| Face to face teaching 14-Apr-2009 to 19-Apr-2009 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Raoul Adam |
| Lecturer: | jc151263. |
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| Assessment: | multidraft Essays. |
Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.