Bachelor of Child and Youth Care
Health Sciences and Social Services - Rehabilitative Health/Services
Purpose and Rationale
Bachelor of Child and Youth Care
Purpose:
The purpose of the Bachelor of Child and Youth Care is to produce graduates to assume professional roles in a range of child and youth care settings. Completion of the Degree will enable graduates to apply for registration as professional child and youth care workers. In this role, professionals will be able to offer developmental and therapeutic services with a focus on relational and life space work with children, youth, and families. Graduates would be able to function in administrative and supervisory roles within the field of auxiliary level child and youth care.
Specific Aims:
- Produce graduates with specialized knowledge to deliver services in social service settings through an ecological-development focus.
- Provide graduates with skills including self-reflective assessment, intervention planning, project design, and community development.
- Equip graduates with ethical and principled approaches to redress injustices affecting young people and families.
- Offer transferable skills for application in other professions, disciplines, and general life.
Rationale:
The HIV/AIDS epidemic and other risk factors have led to an increasing number of vulnerable children, creating a demand for skilled social service workers. The qualification aims to prepare professionals to work with vulnerable populations. The qualification aligns with Millennium Goals related to child development, education, and health by offering specialized childhood development knowledge and intervention skills. The Bachelor of Child and Youth Care is designed to equip professionals with the necessary skills to work effectively in various settings where services need to be delivered to vulnerable children, youth, and families.
Conclusion:
The Bachelor of Child and Youth Care provides a comprehensive education and training program for individuals aspiring to make a positive impact in the lives of children, families, and communities. Through specialized knowledge and skills, graduates are prepared to address the diverse needs of vulnerable populations and contribute to the well-being of society at large.
Outcomes
- Demonstrate knowledge of the foundations of the child and youth care professions with consideration of ethical conduct and the utilisation of an ecological-developmental approach.
- Demonstrate an understanding of care within residential settings and families through knowledge of the use of daily life events, behaviour management strategies, activity programming and relational principles in the context of minimum standards and policy guidelines.
- Demonstrate the ability to function within a team, conduct referrals, design projects and empower communities.
- Demonstrate an understanding of challenges faced by and treatment of vulnerable children and youth.
- Conduct assessment and intervention in child and youth care.
- Demonstrate knowledge about the role and function of an intermediary in the criminal court where the young person needs to act as a witness.
- Demonstrate the application of accumulated knowledge through work integrated learning.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the foundation of public health, health promotion and the development and evaluation of health programmes.
- Demonstrate an understanding of related discipline knowledge in either Psychology or Criminology.
- Apply knowledge of research methods and process to conduct a research study that will contribute to the knowledge base of Child and Youth Care.
- Apply knowledge of Child and Youth Care administration through supervision, leadership, legislation, and policy design and evaluation.
Assessment Criteria
Exit Level Outcome 1
- Identify the pioneers who contributed to the improvement of conditions for children.
- Reflectively appraise the unique attributes of child and youth care and describe key terminology.
- Critically discuss the need for a profession code of ethics.
- Explain and provide examples of the elements of reflective writing.
- Identify various challenges faced by child and youth care workers.
- Name and describe the development stages from infancy through to adolescence.
- Critically discuss the nature and importance of each development domain.
- Describe the necessity and nature of play.
- Determine the criteria for school readiness of children.
- Discuss the different types of intelligence and approaches of learning.
- Explain the influence of socialisation with reference to the role of parenting and culture.
Exit Level Outcome 2
- Critically analyse different approaches to providing holistic and therapeutic work to families.
- Describe what is understood as healthy family functioning and the identifying of family strengths.
- Demonstrate an understanding of mediation during family breakdown.
- Describe 'lifespace' work and 'lifespace crisis intervention'.
- Explain the different levels of relationship and develop a plan for relational practice.
- Describe pain-based and trauma-induced behaviour in children.
- Critically discuss the effective and ineffective use of discipline.
- Evaluate different behaviour management techniques.
- Explore the use of daily events to create meaningful moments for children.
- Explain the process of designing programme activities in child and youth care.
- Understand the importance of working in a team to manage behaviours and programmes.
- Give a comprehensive exposition of success factors in residential care.
- Critically discuss minimum standards for child and youth care.
- Describe the necessity and Regulations for the registration of child care centres.
- Explain the principles of child protection.
- Identify good nutritional and hygienic practices.
- Classify typical health problems and managing infectious diseases.
- Apply basic first aid.
Qualification Details
- Type
- National First Degree(Min 480)
- NQF Level
- 08
- Min. Credits
- 480
- SAQA Source
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