The student will spend three days per week, for 15 weeks, in a setting for children and adolescents. This will take place in one of the following settings: schools; special education classes for behavioural children; day treatment programs, therapeutic preschool programs.

This is both a theoretical and practical course in counselling with the focus primarily on the development of basic concepts, skills and intervention strategies required of the professional child and youth worker.

This course is a study of the growth and development of the child from conception, through early childhood, middle childhood and adolescence. Physical, biosocial, cognitive, psychosocial and emotional factors will be considered. Special emphasis will be placed on emotional and behavioral difficulties that may arise due to interruptions of the normal developmental process.

This course will deal with issues surrounding neglect and emotional, physical and sexual abuse in the context of how the abuse occurred for the client. An important objective for this course is for the student to begin to be able to recognize some common behavioural manifestations of the abuse survivor, and how best to intervene to provide support and personal safety for that client.

This course will examine the impact of biological, psychological and sociocultural factors that affect human sexual behaviour. This course is also geared towards enhancing the student's development in teaching sex education to clients; developing a comfortableness with discussions and counselling sessions related to sexual issues; and being able to competently and compassionately deal with the sensitive sexual issues that arise when working with children and adolescents.

This seminar provides students with the opportunity to integrate theoretical course material with their own development as individuals and as child and youth workers, using their fieldwork experiences as a focus. The class is issue-oriented, dealing with material brought by the students from their experiences in the field.

The student will spend four and a half days a week, for 15-weeks, in a setting for children and adolescents. This will take place in residential treatment centres, group homes, therapeutic preschool programs, day treatment programs, etc.

The student will spend four and a half days a week, for 15-weeks, in a setting for children and adolescents. This will take place in residential treatment centres, group homes, therapeutic preschool programs, day treatment programs, etc.

This course will deal with: the diagnosis, classification, causes and treatment of psychological disorders in children, adolescents and young adults; developing an understanding of symptoms of disorders; developing an understanding of the views of abnormal versus normal behaviours.

This course will deal with developing a context that will assist the child and youth worker in their work with families. The student will, through class debate and discussion, role-plays and group work, develop and practice skills that facilitate parent competence and involvement of all family members in their own problem solving. The course will specifically address the following topics: the role of the child and youth worker with families; the development of cross-cultural competence; counselling techniques that support a collaborative partnership with parents; developing plans that help parents promote positive behaviour; and running effective parenting groups.

This course is designed to help the student become aware of the major schools of thought involved in helping clients. The focus will be on the history, basic concepts, philosophic orientation, techniques, case examples and evaluation of each. This course is aimed at helping the student consolidate his or her own understanding and viewpoints about psychotherapeutic treatment of children and youth through exposure to a variety of treatment models. The course focuses on selected theories and talk treatment therapies in mental health work with children and families. The intention is to familiarize the student with the vocabulary, concepts, theories and practices of each therapy. This course is not intended to make the student an accomplished therapist in any of the selected approaches since that goal is obtained only through an intensive and supervised experience.

This seminar provides students with the opportunity to integrate theoretical course material with their own development as individuals and as child and youth workers, using their fieldwork experiences as a focus. The class is issue-oriented, dealing with material brought by the students from their experiences in the field.

The student will spend three days per week, for 15 weeks, in a setting for children and adolescents. This will take place in residential treatment centres, group homes, therapeutic preschool programs, day-treatment programs, etc.