SPRn5018 Social Work with Youth

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2024
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 7 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Monika Punová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Monika Punová, Ph.D.
Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course provides students with theoretical and practical background for social work with at-risk youth and is intended primarily for students who focus on this target group. This course is based on the basic premise that social work with youth should be based on the promotion of their resilience, thus building on the foreign concept of social work with this target group;
provides opportunities for students to learn and apply the concept of resilience to typical areas faced by young people, their families, and the social workers who work with them;
is based on the social-ecological concept, in which risk and protective factors affecting adolescents are assessed and appropriate interventions are proposed to increase adaptation, coping, and overcoming difficult life situations. At the end of the course, students will develop their knowledge and skills in the following areas: 1. knowledge of at-risk youth; 2. understanding and application of assessment of adolescent resiliency factors; 3. knowledge and self-reflection of personal assumptions of a youth worker; 4. knowledge of the approaches and trends applied within different types of social work with different types of target groups; 5. knowledge of the principles of adequate interventions and the ability to design one's intervention.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course, students will develop their knowledge and skills in the following areas: 1. knowledge of at-risk youth; 2. understanding and application of assessment of adolescent resiliency factors; 3. knowledge and self-reflection of personal assumptions of a youth worker; 4. knowledge of the approaches and trends applied within different types of social work with different types of target groups; 5. knowledge of the principles of adequate interventions and the ability to design one's intervention.
Syllabus
  • 1. Basic concepts, juvenile legislation.
  • 2. Theoretical views of youth at risk.
  • 3. Well-being of adolescents.
  • 4. Personal conditions of youth social worker.
  • 5. Developmental changes in adolescence - a holistic approach.
  • 6. Resilience ecological approach, Strengths-based social work.
  • 7. Use of the resiliency concept with youth at risk social work.
  • 8. Risk and protective factors of youth at risk - micro, mezzo, and macrosystem level.
  • 9. Types of interventions, and topical trends in social work with youth.
  • 10. Social work with specific groups of youth at risk.
Literature
  • KABÍČEK, Pavel, Ladislav CSÉMY and Jana HAMANOVÁ. Rizikové chování v dospívání a jeho vztah ke zdraví. Vydání 1. Praha: Triton, 2014, 343 stran. ISBN 9788073877934. info
  • SAPIN, Kate. Essential skills for youth work practice. 1st ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2008, xiii, 226. ISBN 9781412930932. info
  • HAYDEN, Carol. Children in trouble : the role of families, schools and communities. New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, xix, 177. ISBN 9781403994851. info
  • REID, Hazel L. and Alison J. FIELDING. Providing support to young people : a guide to interviewing in helping relationships. New York: Routledge, 2007, vii, 119. ISBN 9780415419598. info
  • Working with young people. Edited by Roger Harrison - Christine Wise. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications, 2005, viii, 229. ISBN 1412919460. URL info
  • Resiliency enhancement : putting the strengths perspective into social work practice. Edited by Elaine Norman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000, vi, 240. ISBN 0231118015. info
  • HAGGERTY, Robert J. Stress, risk, and resilience in children and adolescents : processes, mechanisms, and interventions. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994, xxiv, 417. ISBN 0521576628. info
Teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, excursions, final exam.
Assessment methods
Seminar papers, final exam.
Language of instruction
Czech
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