Unit Content
Outcomes
1. Develop an understanding of community based services & support
2. Evaluate the core competencies of care practices within a range of community contexts, including mental health, community support and disability care
3. Demonstrate an understanding of foundational principles of helping others, including socio-cultural diversity, ethical practice, personal worldview and wellbeing. Presentation & Paper Week 9 40%
4. Develop personal and professional wellbeing strategies
Subject Content
- Understanding community services in Australian and global contexts
- Core competencies of care practices
- Working with diverse groups (including Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander communities).
- Understanding Contexts: Mental Health and Addiction
- Understanding Contexts: Youth & Community Work
- Understanding Contexts: Disability and Aged-Care Services
- Understanding Contexts: Family Support and Child Protection
- Understanding Contexts: Trauma & trauma informed care
- Foundational Principles: Socio-cultural diversity
- Foundational Principles: ethical practice, dignity of practice & multidisciplinary approaches to practice
- Foundational Principles: wellbeing and personal worldview
- Working across the lifespan: with Child, Young People and Adults
- Wellbeing of the Helper
This course may be offered in the following formats
- Face to face (onsite)
- eLearning (online)
- Intensives
This subject typically runs as an online recorded unit which are watched weekly, with online-live tutorials.
Please check the timetable to see when this subject will next be offered at Alphacrucis University College.
Assessment Methods
- Essay (40%)
- Presentation & Paper (40%)
- Critical reflection (20%)
Prescribed Text
No prescribed text – all readings will be provided
