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SHZ 524 - Social Work with Children and Youth

Graduate Education Institute · Social Work · Master

ECTS: 7.5 T+P+L: 3+0+0 Departmental Elective
Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Emel YURTSEVER

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to provide the basic knowledge and basic skills necessary to realize social services for children and young people.

Course Content

Elements of the knowledge base that the social worker must possess in order to implement social work with children and young people; the necessary tools and resources for evaluation and intervention, and the skills to be possessed ...

Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Biopsychosocial assessment summarizes.
  2. Summarizes the methods for helping children and young people.
  3. It explains the knowledge-based elements that the social worker should have in order to implement social work with children and young people.
  4. It reveals the competent elements of the social worker in social work practice with children and young people.
  5. They prepare an intervention plan for social work practice with children or young people.
  6. Children and young people with special conditions know the nature of their problems.

Core Area Distribution

(22) Humanities%40 (76) Social Services%60

Teaching Methods

ExpressionQuestion-AnswerDiscussionCase StudySelf study

Assessment & Evaluation

Performance Assignment ( Lab / Workshop / Field Work / Seminar / Presentation / Completion Study / Thesis

ECTS / Workload

ActivityQuantityDuration (h)Total Workload
Course Duration (Including Exam Week)000
Out of Class Study Period000
Midterm000
Quiz000
Assignment000
Practice000
Final000

Course Schedule

WeekSubjectPreparation
1INTRODUCTION: The aim of the course, its content and discussion of weekly course topics. Presentation of resourcesCourse orientation
2A holistic view when working with children and young people: an ecological-transactional frameworkSocial Work Practice with Children, Nancy Boyd Webb
3Evaluation and importance when working with children and young peopleEvaluation and importance when working with children and young people
4The importance of family involvement when working with children and young peopleThe importance of family involvement when working with children and young people
5Student Presentation: The importance of skin contact in early childhood development,( case discussion)Child Raised Like a Dog (Skin Hunger), Perry, B.D. & Szalavitz, M.
6Student Presentation: Case discussionChild Raised Like A Dog (Stairway to Heaven), Perry, B.D. & Szalavitz, M.
7Student Presentation: Case discussionChild Raised Like a Dog (World's Coldest Heart) Boy Raised Like a Dog (Boy Raised Like a Dog), Perry, B.D. & Szalavitz, M.
8Student Presentation: Case Discussion
9Student Presentation: Case DiscussionOpposing Disorder
10Student Presentation: Case DiscussionAdolescents with Depression
11Student Presentation: Case DiscussionSocial Anxiety Disorder
12Student Presentation: Case DiscussionLow Self-Esteem in Adolescents
13Student Presentation: Case DiscussionPost Traumatic Stress Disorder in Sexually Abused Adolescents
14Student Presentation: Case DiscussionAcademic Skill Problems
15Student Presentation: Case DiscussionFamily Problems
16Student Presentation: Case DiscussionPlay Therapy in Sexually Abused Children