This course offers students an introduction to small group experience, information about social services offered in Renfrew County, and a gradual preparation for field placement. This course introduces students to the basic skills required for effective interviewing. Through written exercises, role plays, small group activities, and video presentations, students practise, in a systematic manner, skills required to build a helping relationship with clients. This course is a general review of Human Development over the lifespan. The major stages and tasks of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood are examined and integrated.
Students attempt to apply the knowledge of their own life path.
Cultural, social, psychological, and biological bases of influences are discussed. This course familiarizes students with the phases of the planned change process with special emphasis on assessment. Students are introduced to a general approach to working with people in crisis. Crises generated by violence within families are examined in depth. During this introduction to field practice, students work two days per week in an agency under agency personnel supervision.