PSYC 3013 - CHILD & ADOLESCENT ISSUES & INTRVTN

This course is a study of major issues affecting children, adolescents, and their families. Special attention is given to the issues of childhood trauma and abuse, child care, dissolution of the family, juvenile delinquency, effects of poverty on children, and issues of dependency, including foster care, kinship care, adoption, and residential child care. Child appropriate intervention strategies will be introduced to assist in working with children in effective ways.

Credits: 3