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Professional Practice in Context (PAED90007)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Overview
| Availability | Semester 1 - Online |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
This subject asks students to examine the assumptions, values, experiences, skills, forms of knowledge and broader influences on your work with young people. The subject is structured into four connected modules that build on each other across the semester:
- Reflective practice
- Working with resilience
- Working with other professionals
- Being resilient
Using experiences as a starting point, and building on this with topics notes and selected reading students will explore frameworks and interventions for working with young people to improve health outcomes. These include risk and resiliency, professional role boundaries, ethical practice and collaboration.
Students will draw on theoretical perspectives and ideas from contemporary literature as well as insights generated through critical reflection and sharing thoughts and experiences with their subject colleagues. Through this critical enquiry it is expected that they will further develop their understandings of their own practice and change and develop aspects of that practice.
Intended learning outcomes
This subject is designed to enable students to:
- examine professional practice in a variety of contexts using a critically reflective approach;
- describe different types of knowledge and how these are used in practice;
- recognize factors which enable and hinder workers with young people in various contexts;
- compare different professional settings and explore strategies to enhance inter-agency collaboration, communication and referral;
- analyze current practice against ethical, legal and confidentiality principles;
- apply the concept of resilience to inform decision making in working with young people in a range of contexts; and
- identify research literature and professional information to develop practice.
Generic skills
This subject also incorporates key generic skills and professional capabilities that can be applied across the course and into the future. On completion of this subject it is expected that students will be able to:
- apply the concepts of resilience, risk factors and protective factors to assessment and planning care and interventions;
- develop your capacity to reflect on your professional experiences to enhance your practice
- better communicate with other agencies and professionals who also have a stake in the young people you work with
- develop collaborative ways of working across different disciplines and sectors
This subject is closely linked to the Young People in Context subject which critiques the ‘adolescence’ and ‘health’ and explores frameworks for understanding adolescent development and the diversity of adolescent experience. Both subjects provide a foundation for learning and professional development throughout the Masters/Graduate Diploma/Certificate in Adolescent Health and Wellbeing course.
Last updated: 14 January 2023
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 14 January 2023
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Case Study including psychosocial assessment
| Mid semester | 40% |
Exploration of professional or discipline related issue
| End of semester | 50% |
5x pieces of reflective writing (Max: 400 words each)
| End of semester | 10% |
Last updated: 14 January 2023
Dates & times
- Semester 1 - Online
Principal coordinator Ani Wierenga Mode of delivery Online Contact hours NIL (Online) Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 28 February 2022 to 29 May 2022 Last self-enrol date 11 March 2022 Census date 31 March 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 6 May 2022 Assessment period ends 24 June 2022
Time commitment details
A total of 170 hours: includes participation in online learning activities, reading course materials, independent study and completion of learning tasks and assessment.
Last updated: 14 January 2023
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Graduate Certificate in Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Course Master of Adolescent Health and Wellbeing Course Graduate Diploma in Adolescent Health and Wellbeing - Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 14 January 2023