Professional Practice in Context (PAED90007)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Online

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Overview

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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: 8 November 2024

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: 8 November 2024

Assessment

DescriptionTimingPercentage

Case Study including psychosocial assessment

  • 1,500 words
Mid semester40%

Exploration of professional or discipline related issue

  • 1,500 words
End of semester50%

5x pieces of reflective writing (Max: 400 words each)

  • 2,000 words (total)
End of semester10%

Last updated: 8 November 2024

Dates & times

  • Semester 1 - Online
    Principal coordinatorsPhillipa Bellemore and Ani Wierenga
    Mode of deliveryOnline
    Contact hoursNIL (Online)
    Total time commitment170 hours
    Teaching period26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024
    Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024
    Census date 3 April 2024
    Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024
    Assessment period ends21 June 2024

    Semester 1 contact information

    wierenga@unimelb.edu.au or phillipa.bellemore@unimelb.edu.au

    Administrative Coordinator

    Helen D'Cruz
    hdcruz@unimelb.edu.au

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.

What do these dates mean

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Last updated: 8 November 2024

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:

    TypeName
    CourseMaster of Adolescent Health and Wellbeing
    CourseGraduate Certificate in Adolescent Health and Wellbeing
    CourseGraduate 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.

    Please note Single Subject Studies via Community Access Program is not available to student visa holders or applicants

    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: 8 November 2024