CYP6045 - Therapeutic Interventions with Children and Families

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

In this module, students will demonstrate their knowledge, skills and understanding of a specific and identified need from a practice-based scenario by planning a range of therapeutic approaches and interventions for a child, small group children or a family. Students will negotiate their own chosen area of need, support or development gaps that they will specialise in. A range of intervention strategies, incremental planning or associated theoretical approaches will be discussed and critiqued in sessions to inform which activity plans students would like to develop, supporting their identified area of need. Students will have the opportunity to make clear links between theory and practice, with reference to research from national and international perspectives brought into the rationale. Students will be expected critically reflect on their own practice using scenarios for group discussion. These strategies will prepare students for future employability.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Formal scheduled teaching and learning activities. This module will be taught using a mixture of lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials, some of which will be student-led. Formative assessment by self and peers will be integrated into the sessions.
Hours: 25
Intended group size: 60

Guided independent study
Hours: 125

Further details relating to assessment

Students will negotiate their chosen area of need, developmental gap, or support for a child, small group of children, or family, which would benefit from a planned intervention. This will response to the current context, but could include- an activity plan for a child with speech language and communication need; an intervention plan to support a family relocated following domestic violence; a specialist play plan for a child with SEND; a therapeutic intervention in response to trauma.

Intervention plan will include planned activities over a suitable timescale, focused on the indenitifed needs, support or development gap of children, a child or family. The rationale will critically evaluate the decisions made in creating this intervention plan, the research that informed those decisions, and future ways forward.

All students will have an opportunity within the modules for formative assessment support, to incrementally aid the completion of summative assessment tasks. Formative assessments may take the form of peer review, guided self-reflection, tutorial, draft feedback, where relevant employer feedback.

Assessment:

001 Intervention plan with rationale; 2,500 words equivalent; semester 1 100%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - PRS_CODE=
Level - 6
Credit Value - 15
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 6S1

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