| CODE | THL1006 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Practicum in Safeguarding | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Faculty of Theology | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The unit will follow a combination of learning experiences through observation, fact finding and reflection. The student will be given a set of guidelines to follow, in what to observe, how to ask questions and explanations related to procedures or lack of them. Once the students develop their proposal for the practicum, they will be assigned a supervisor to work directly with them. This dynamic will provide students with general orientation to the practicum site, including philosophy and expectation. Study-unit Aims: The study-unit aims to provide the student with an opportunity to work in a different setting in order to experience actual work conditions under the supervision of professionals outside of the University Campus (academic) environment. It intends to refine and gain confidence in the skills developed in the safeguarding education program mostly by observing and questioning the measures and good practices adopted for the safeguarding of children. The practicum seeks to provide the opportunity to work effectively with other professional colleagues outside University and to acquire a realistic perspective regarding the practicality of adopting and implementing such policies. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: (a) understand through observation and questioning the safety of that particular environment assigned, and specifically the measures adopted by way of prevention and intervention in matters related to sexual abuse of children and young people; (b) discuss particular resilience building activities for children and young children; (c) evaluate that specific organisation or institution in relation to safeguarding of children. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: (a) conduct a basic internal assessment of that institution’s needs and resources; (b) check the routine employment screening process, the access of visitors to schools or agencies that cater for children, and the monitoring of people loitering close to the premises and how they are to be approached. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Goodyear-Brown, P., ed., Handbook of Child Sexual Abuse: Identification, Assessment, and Treatment (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2011). - Davies, E.A. & Jones, A.C., “Risk Factors in Child Sexual Abuse”, Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine, 20:3 (2013), 146-150. Supplementary - Böhm, B., Zollner, H., Fegert, J.M., & Liebhard, H., “Child Sexual Abuse in the Context of the Roman Catholic Church: A Review of Literature from 1981–2013”, Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 23:6 (2014) 635-656. - Craig, L.A., Browne, K.D., & Stringer I., “Comparing Sex Offender Risk Assessment Measures on a UK Sample”, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 48:1 (2004) 7-27. - “Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report”, 14 August 2018, 297-313 (online: https://www.attorneygeneral.gov/report/) - Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Australia, December 2017), 50-54 (online: https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/final_report_- _recommendations.pdf). - Zollner, H., “Safeguarding Minors: Challenges and Perspectives”, in Karlijn Demasure, Katharina A. Fuchs, & Hans Zollner, eds., Safeguarding. Reflecting on Child Abuse, Theology and Care,(Leuven: Peeters, 2018), 225-234. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Independent Study & Practicum | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Paul Galea Kevin Schembri |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2024/5. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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