Description

Of interest to those who have a keen interest in both child and adult psychology.

Duration:                          16 Weeks

Fetac Level 5

Course Units

1  Young People and Society

The module is designed to enable learners to develop critical awareness of the nature of youth in contemporary society. It provides learners with an opportunity to explore and analyse the position of young people in Irish society and examine societal responses to their issues and concerns

Units

1. Adolescence
2. The social situation of young people
3. Youth culture and subcultures
4. Provision for young people

2  Youth Information Skills

This module is designed to enable learners to acquire the knowledge, skills and confidence required to work effectively, under direction in youth information settings. It promotes the ability of learners to contribute effectively to the provision of quality youth information services

Units

1. Context of Youth Information
2. Principles and Good Practice in youth information
3. Understanding Young People
4. Information Management
5. Working with enquirers

3  Working With Young People

This module is designed to enable learners to acquire the knowledge, skills dn aptitudes to work effectively with young people. It promotes the ability of learners to work safely dn effectively as part of a tem in youth work settings, this ability is central to good youth work practice and demands rigorous assessment. Combined with work experience.

Units

1. Good Practice in Youth Work
2. Relating to young People
3. Working with Groups in youth Work
4. Organising youth work activities.

4  Substance Use Issues in Youth Work

Requirements – learners must have prior knowledge and interests in community based work and have supervised access to a group to work with for practice and assessment purposes. Assessor must be an experienced youth worker practitioners and trainer who has direct experience of working within the area of substance abuse.

Introduction

This module is designed to promote good practice among those who work with young people and communities who are negatively affected by substance use. It provides a critical perspective on some of the issues that affect your people and their communities and encourages them development of coherent responses at individual and organisational level. This module should promote the ability of learners to work safely and effectively as part of a team in youth and community work settings.

Units

1. Substances and Dependency
2. Young People and Substance Use
3. Responses, Interventions and Strategies
4. Youth Work Responses

5  Understanding Youth Work

Introduction

This module is designed to give learners and understanding of the context of youth work, youth work issues and approaches. It should enable learners to acquire the knowledge and attitudes to work effectively under direction with youth groups.

Units

1. Context of Youth
2. Youth work issues and approaches
3. Youth work organisations

6  Understanding Community Development

Introduction

This module is designed to introduce the learners to some of the key concepts of community development and promotes their understanding of the under pinning theoretical framework of community development practice. It is aimed at community development either in a paid or unpaid capacity.

Units

1. Community Development 1 Community Development
2. Participating in Community Development
3. History of Community development
4. Community Development and Social Change

The above courses give a broad understanding of the issues involved in community development and working with youth within a community. It is of particular interest to those working with youth groups, young offenders, youth rehabilitation centres, teachers, youth club officials or people who give their time unpaid to youth groups.

This course is currently not running.