Child Protection

22B0403

Bachelor

English

5.0

winter- and summerterm

1 semester

The Child Protection module deals with the international, historical, and legal framework of child protection (United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, national laws etc.). It presents the (legal, historical, pedagogical, and sociological) challenges for children needing protection, the current national and international situation for families (family forms, social policies, substance abuse, violence, child abduction) and the specific situation of migrant children. It considers specific local institutional developments and social work practice and allows for international comparisons of case studies in child protection

1. Children´s rights, social welfare and social innovation
2. A systemic examination of the factors that led to vulnerability, harm and abuse
3. Recognition, diagnosis and management of harm and abuse
4. Approaches to working with children and young people who have been abused and their families and careers.
5. Pedagogical and social perspectives on child protection
6. Local and international practices

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

• Oral presentation, with written elaboration or
• Homework / Assignment or
• Portfolio exam

The portfolio examination comprises 100 points and is made up of the examination elements presentation (PR) and term paper (HA), each weighted with 50 points

Oral Presentation: approx. 15 minutes, seminar paper: approx. 15 pages

Homework: approx. 20 pages

Term paper as part of the portfolio exam: approx. 15 pages

The requirements are specified in the respective concrete event.

Good english skills.

The students will be able to outline a basic understanding and knowledge of social work in the field of child and youth protection. 

The students will be able to identify and define the factors that led to children and young people being vulnerable to harm and abuse.

The students will be able to outline and explain different international and European policy and practice approaches to prevention, responding to and treatment of the abuse of children.

The students will be able to apply a systematic theoretical framework in critically analysing and evaluating the different factors that impact on the lives of children and young people, with a particular focus on child protection and prevention.

Students independently test research hypotheses using appropriate scientific methods.

The students will be able to demonstrate professional social work values and a commitment to social justice and inclusion including a respect for children and young people and for their rights, value and promote fairness and justice, and adopt anti-discriminatory practices in respect of gender, sexual orientation, race disability, age, religion and culture.

Graduates

• develop a professional self-image that is oriented towards goals and standards of professional activity;
• justify their own professional actions with theoretical and methodological knowledge;
• are able to assess their own abilities, reflect autonomously on factual design and use this freedom under guidance;
• recognize situationally adequate framework conditions of professional action and justify their decisions responsibly and ethically;
• critically reflect on their professional actions in relation to social expectations and consequences.

• Modules: „Diversity and Inclusion“; „Social Policies in Europe“

• Social Work, B.A.

• Thönnessen, Joachim

• Thönnessen, Joachim