Learning Outcome
a) Critically review, interpret, integrate, and synthesise advanced knowledge of the approaches, practices, and processes for working with children and young people from multicultural populations.
b) Adapt and use ethical judgment when counselling children and young people from different cultures.
c) Critically apply self-awareness and self-reflexivity when responding to the evolving mental health and well-being needs of children and young people in contemporary society.
d) Use your professional knowledge to clearly communicate ideas at an advanced academic level, using modern communication methods.
b) Adapt and use ethical judgment when counselling children and young people from different cultures.
c) Critically apply self-awareness and self-reflexivity when responding to the evolving mental health and well-being needs of children and young people in contemporary society.
d) Use your professional knowledge to clearly communicate ideas at an advanced academic level, using modern communication methods.
Assessment Details and Instructions
Purpose:
The aim of this task is to create an information booklet for helping professionals. These could be in counselling, psychotherapy, psychology, social work, teaching, education, human services, criminal justice, medicine, or therapy. The booklet should compare and contrast two different counselling or psychotherapy approaches from this unit, focusing on working with children and young people from diverse backgrounds.
Note that these approaches are different from the approaches examined in assessment 1. Also, the diverse group in Assessment 2 must differ from the one in Assessment 1.
Process:
- Using the unit materials and authoritative sources, students will develop the following topic: Compare and contrast the application of two different counselling and psychotherapy approaches taught in this unit to working with children and young people with diverse backgrounds. Students will need to choose a specific context/demographic. For example, counselling refugee children/young people.
- Identify the focus of the Information Booklet.
- Identify the context for the Information Booklet.
- Your target audience will need to be clear.
- You should research the specific needs of your target audience and refer to the evidence base for the chosen theories and interventions.
- Include APA 7th in-text references throughout your information booklet.
Format
Use a size 12 font for the main body of text. You can, however, adjust the font size for headings. You may choose the font style; however, ensure that it is easy to read and appropriate for your audience.
Follow APA 7th for in-text citations and reference list, but standard essay formatting is not required.
Submission:
Assessment Type : Information Booklet
Weighting: 50%
Length: Approx. 1500 words (In-text citations included; reference list excluded) + graphics
Submit your booklet via the online class dropbox (Turnitin).
