School Of Social SciencesThe Ecology of Child Abuse and NeglectWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 400596.1
Discipline: YOUTH WORK
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 7
Credit Points: 10
About this Unit
In this unit students explore the issue of child abuse and neglect and its relationship to socio-political and economic factors. The complexities and ambiguities of care and protection work are dissected at an advanced level. Reference is made to students' agencies and how they have developed particular responses to the issue of child abuse. This unit develops and defines existing knowledge and theoretical frameworks and challenges students to deconstruct various approaches to care and protection practice.