SPRn4430 Social Work with Youth

Faculty of Social Studies
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/1/0. 8 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Monika Punová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Monika Punová, Ph.D.
Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Supplier department: Department of Social Policy and Social Work – Faculty of Social Studies
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 32 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/32, only registered: 0/32
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The course is taught at master study program. It will provide knowledge of basic theoretical and practical solutions for social work with youth at risk. Main objectives can be summarized as follows:;
to learn about youth at risk;
to understand and application assessment of youth resiliency factors;
to sebereflexive of social worker with youth at risk personal conditions;
to understand and applicate the basic principles of the resiliency youth work.
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student will be able to assess the life situation of a selected group of youth at risk; describe resiliency concept; identify risk and protective factors of resiliency; apply resiliency concept into social work with youth; reflect on topics related to the resilience of the social worker to young people.
Syllabus
  • 1. Basic concepts.
  • 2. Theoretical views of youth at risk.
  • 3. The resilience of a social worker with youth.
  • 4. Personal conditions of youth social worker.
  • 5. Developmental changes in adolescence - a holistic approach.
  • 6. Resilience ecological approach.
  • 7. Use of the resiliency concept with youth at risk social work.
  • 8. Risk and protective factors of youth at risk - micro, mezzo, and macrosystem level.
  • 9. Types of interventions, topical trends in social work with youth.
  • 10. Social work with specific groups of youth at risk.
Literature
    required literature
  • PUNOVÁ, Monika. Práce s mládeží v době nejisté (Youth Work in Times of Uncertainty). Sociální pedagogika/Social education. Zlín: Univerzita Tomáše Bati, 2015, vol. 3, No 1, p. 70-84. ISSN 1805-8825. URL info
  • PUNOVÁ, Monika. Resilience aneb příznivý vývoj navzdory nepříznivým okolnostem. In Punová Monika, Navrátilová Jitka. Praktické vzdělávání v sociální práci optikou konceptu resilience. Brno: MUNI PRESS, Centrum praktických a evaluačních studií, 2014, p. 22-40. ISBN 978-80-210-7337-1. info
  • PUNOVÁ, Monika. Konceptuální vymezení resilienční sociální práce s mládeží (A Resilience Social Work with Youth: Companion Concepts). Sociální práce Sociálna práca. Brno: Asociace vzdělavatelů v sociální práci, 2012, roč. 12, No 4, p. 67-76. ISSN 1213-6204. info
  • PUNOVÁ, Monika. Resilience v sociální práci s rizikovou mládeží (Resiliency Concept in Social Work with Youth at Risk). Sociální práce/Sociálna práca. Brno: Asociace vzdělavatelů v sociální práci, 2012, roč. 12, No 2, p. 90-103. ISSN 1213-6204. info
  • REID, Hazel L. and Alison J. FIELDING. Providing support to young people : a guide to interviewing in helping relationships. New York: Routledge, 2007, vii, 119. ISBN 9780415419598. info
  • Resiliency enhancement : putting the strengths perspective into social work practice. Edited by Elaine Norman. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000, vi, 240. ISBN 0231118015. info
  • HAGGERTY, Robert J. Stress, risk, and resilience in children and adolescents : processes, mechanisms, and interventions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, xxiv, 417. ISBN 0521576628. info
Teaching methods
Lecture, workshop
Assessment methods
During the semester, students work on two seminar papers, the output is the final exam. It consists of an analysis of a document on a selected group of at-risk youth and the subsequent answering of questions.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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