| Course Unit Title | SOCIAL WORK AND CHILD PROTECTION |
| Course Unit Code | ASCP402 |
| Course Unit Details | |
| Number of ECTS credits allocated | 6 |
| | Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:- Explain that Child Protection Policy is now oriented within the framework of the Declaration of the Child’s Rights.
- Describe and analyse the 54 articles of the Declaration under the three Principles: Protection, Provision, Participation.
- Recognize the importance of the family in the child’s life and take all the appropriate measures so that, at first place, the child would remain in his family.
- Recognize that in case that the family is proved to be unable to take care of the child, it has to be chosen one of the alternative solutions: day care, or foster care, or residential care or adoption.
- Recognize the child’s traumatic feelings because of his separation from his parents.
- Describe and evaluate the characteristics of foster care, residential care and adoption, as well as the methods and skills of the social worker in handling the child, his parents, and the foster parents.
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| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face |
| Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE |
| Recommended optional program components | NONE |
| Course Contents | • Child Protection Policy is now oriented within the framework of the Declaration of the Child’s Rights.
• Analysis of the 54 articles of the Declaration under the three Principles: Protection, Provision, Participation.
• Recognition of the importance of the family in the child’s life so that, at first place, the child would remain in his family.
• In case that the family cannot take care of the child, it has to be chosen one of the alternative solutions: day care, or foster care, or residential care or adoption.
• Description and recognition of the child’s traumatic feelings because of his separation from his parents.
• Description and evaluation of the characteristics of foster care, residential care and adoption, as well as the methods and skills of the social worker in handling the child, his parents, and the foster parents.
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| Recommended and/or required reading: |
| Textbooks | - Ferguson, H., (2011) Child Protection Practice, Palgrave MacMillan
- Kadoglou,M. Foster Care in the e-journal Psycho-grafimata (upload. 15-6-16) http://psychografimata.com/18069/i-anadochi-pedion/ (In Greek).
- Stathopoulos,P.(2015). Social Protection-Social Welfare: Policies and Programs, Chapter IX, Athens: Papazisis Publications (In Greek).
- National Org. of Social Care, MITERA, Center for the Babies,(2000) Adoption: Trends,Policy.Practice, Edit. T. Kousidou, Athens: Grigori Publ. (In Greek).
- Trizeliotis,G & Koussidou.A.(1989),Social Work in Adoption and Foster Care, MITERA, Athens: Center for the Babies “MOTHER” (In Greek).
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| References | - Kallinikaki, Th.,(2001), Foster Care, Athens: Ellinika Grammata (In Greek).
- Welbourne,P. & Dixson,J (Editors).(2013), Child Protection and Child Welfare: A Global Appraisalof Cultures Policy and Practice, Kingsley Publishers
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| Planned learning activities and teaching methods | Teaching Methods: Class lectures, power point, class discussions with the students, case studies, role playing.
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| Assessment methods and criteria | | Test | 25% | | Homework | 25% | | Final Exam | 50% |
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| Language of instruction | Greek |
| Work placement(s) | NO |
