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International Child and Family Welfare (HLTH90008)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2024
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Overview
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This subject explores the ways in which child welfare systems internationally have developed in response to child care and protection needs. It will consider the controversies surrounding the protection of children, and the developing knowledge base that informs responses to child maltreatment. It will explore the knowledge base underpinning child protection responses, and will explore some of the innovative frameworks, approaches and key ideas that have emerged over time. It explores some of the universal values and beliefs that underpin and drive child protection systems, particularly within Western jurisdictions, and will consider the implications of this for the development of child protection typologies that have broader international relevance.
Intended learning outcomes
Knowledge
On completion of the subject, students should be able to:
- Identify children's rights in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and describe why it has been difficult to advance the children and young people's rights agenda in international child welfare contexts;
- Describe how media representations of child protection controversies may impact public opinion and professional child and family welfare responses in international contexts;
- Describe the four-dimensional typology ('the four-quadrants model') developed for international child protection systems; and
- Identify contemporary challenges in international child protection systems, particularly in relation to processes of reform.
Skills
On completion of the subject, students should be able to:
- Critically evaluate ideological and practical issues and tensions around risk, rescue, and rights in international child protection contexts; and
- Critically appraise the evidence base regarding reform processes in international child and family welfare systems, demonstrating how they influence child protection practice.
Application of Knowledge and Skills
On completion of the subject, students should be able to:
- Critically engage with the tensions around risk, rescue and rights that influence professional judgement in international child protection practice contexts, and apply this critical understanding to practice;
- Analyse how national culture and professional cultures influence and interact with the nature of child protection service provision in international contexts and apply this knowledge to practice; and
- Apply a critical knowledge of regulatory frameworks in child welfare to practice.
Generic skills
Students will be provided with the opportunity to practice and reinforce:
- high level written communication skills;
- advance information and interpretation skills;
- advance analytic, integration and problem-solving skills; and
- demonstrate competence in critical and theoretical thinking through essay writing and online discussions.
Last updated: 8 November 2024