Child youth and family intervention

Child, Youth and Family
Intervention Book 1: Task 2

Table of Contents
Assessment Task 2: Terms of Placement.........................................................................................2
Assessment Task 3 Self Care Reflective writing...........................................................................13
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Assessment Task 2: Terms of Placement
Assessment Questions Student Response
1. Coming into care
a. Answer all 3 parts of this question:
In a paragraph answer the following questions.
How do you and your organisation:
 Explain to the child what they can
expect from their placement
 Explain to the child the support
they will receive from the staff
 Ensure this information is
communicated in a way that the
child understands?
The child can expect from their placement
about to get desired salary package and an
effective opportunity of learning to improve
their practical and clinical skills which are
helpful to gain bright future. They can gain
support from staff to take guidance of working
and clear queries related to clinical practices to
become expert in them. It is necessary to ask
children for further queries to ensure the proper
conveying of desired information.
b. List at least 3 names of legislation that
must be complied with when
supporting a young person coming into
care.
 Health Records (Privacy and Access)
Act 1997
 Medical Treatment Health Directions
Act 2006
 Health Insurance Act 1973
c. For each of the 9 points below. Provide
an example of how you explain each
piece of information to a young person.
 House rules  Patients must return to Home wood
Health Centre by 10pm.
 Patients rights and responsibilities will
be recognised.
 Smoke free & tobacco free policy and
therapeutic contract must be honoured.
 Consequences for their behaviour  Violent actions
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 Non-cooperation during treatment
 Never share anything
 Client responsibilities while in care  Client should provide complete
information.
 Pay respect to health personnel.
 Use prescriptions or medical devices
for oneself only.
 Client rights in reporting if they feel
unsafe
 Place a complain to care professional
 Demands for improving safety
 Staff rostering  The staff rostering refers to list of
employees including nurse, health care
assistants, ward managers, specialist
etc., with their duration of their
working schedule.
 Their right to privacy and
confidentiality
This refers to right of patient to demands from
administration of hospital to strictly maintain
safety and privacy of relevant information.
 Staff reporting requirements There are some of factors which are mandatory
to be considered while reporting in healthcare
including information collection with accurate
time & location of incident, description of
occurring and maintain standards of data.
 Staff’s duty of care to the young person This includes to provide appropriate
medication and pay respect to the patient along
with maintaining safety of relevant data.
 How the young person can provide
feedback about their care and can make
a complaint and what is your role
A young patient can provide their feedback to
their regular nurse of specialist doctor about
problems verbally. My role is to listen problem
of individual patiently and then provide
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effective solution of it.
2. Child Safety
a. List the 7 Victorian Child Safe standards
j. What does your organisation policy say to
children about the Victorian Child Safety
Standards?
 Strategies to embed an organisational
culture of child safety.
 A child safety policy
 A child safety code of conduct
 Screening, supervision, training and
other human resources practices that
reduce the risk of child abuse
 Procedures for responding to and
reporting suspected child abuse
 Strategies to determine and decrease
risks of child abuse
 Strategies to promote child
participation and empowerment
My organisation prefer to obey these standards
to ensure child health and safety.
k. Provide two examples of
how you promote a child safe
environment as a carer of YPs,
referring to the Child Safe
Standards?
Example 1
I can suggest to management
to apply strict policy of child
safety via code of conduct of
the same.
Example 2
I can organise effective
training to make sure removal
of risk of child abuse.
l. Does your organisation empower children
and YPs to speak up if they feel unsafe?
If so how? How do you respond?
Yes, my organisation has a policy for staff
members to talk with children and analyse
about their fearful and unsafe feelings in order
to remove the same accordingly. If I feel that a
child feel unsafe and then I will improve their
morale and put effort to reduce the negative
factor related to safety to make them feel
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comfortable.
m. What steps do you and your organisation
undertake to report child abuse disclosures and
breaches of child safety?
The written reports will be submitted to desired
authorised department with descrption of
factors creating issue of child abuse and
breaches of child safety to appeal them for
taking effective steps for removing the same.
n. What the five (5) forms of abuse are
captured Under the Victorian Reportable
Conduct Scheme?
 A sexual offence
 Sexual misconduct
 Physical violence with or in presence of
a child
 Emotional & psychological harm
 Significant neglect of a child
o. Research and explain the following
Victorian child safety laws, include the date
they became effective and what they mean for
residential care workers and organisational
leaders:
 Failure to disclose child sexual abuse
 Failure to protect a child from sexual
offences
The child safety laws includes Adoption Act
1993, Children and Young People Act, Crimes
(Child Sex Offenders) Act 2005 and Family
Violence Act 2016. The residential care
workers & leaders to follow desired
legislations to gain immediate disclosure of
child sexual abuse to take required actions
against specific incident. Quick disclosure of
child abuse and strict actions will helps to
protect kids from this problem.
3. Personal Belongings
a. Write a paragraph about what strategies you
use to ensure a child’s personal possessions are
looked after and maintained
p. Write a paragraph about what to do if the
possessions need to be disposed of. Refer to
the organisation policy and procedure
I prefer to thoroughly observe facial
expressions and situation of a child regularly to
analyse their discomfort for provide desired
facilities for making improving their comfort
level by remaining friendly to them.
I will prefer organisational policies &
procedures in order to reduce problem of a
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child and make them feeling comfortable.
4. Support for Parents and Carers
a. When you encounter parents or carers that
require support services or assistance, as a
care worker, what are you required to do
within your role?
I required to conduct counselling of a child in
order to increase their morale and make them
strong mentally to deal with the trauma and
discuss their situations to other carers for
providing appropriate medications.
b. Research and identify two
support services in your
local area that parents or
carers may be referred to.
In your answer identify
 One (1) for parents or
carers experiencing
Trauma
 One (1) for AOD or
Family Violence
service provider.
 In your answer include
the name of the
services, contact details
and the referral
process.
Support Service 1
 Child FIRST and
family services
Contact details- 1541447856
 Domestic Violence
Resource Centre
Victoria
Contact details- 1635252578
Support Service 2
 Family intervention
services
Contact details- 1654822452
 Cradle to Kinder
program
Contact Details- 1858454532
c. Does your organisation provide referral
supports to parents or carers? Explain how
you found out if your organisation does or
does not provide referral support services.
Yes, our organisation provide referral support
to parents or carers by giving desired services
which are related to allergy, cardiology, ear
nose & throat, gastrointestinal & liver, oral &
maxillofacial, general surgery, vascular
facilities, ophthalmology and many more.
5. Education
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a. In a paragraph name and explain how your
organisation’s policy and procedures
support children or young people to
recommence and/or attend school or
vocational education?
b. Name the organisational policy and
supporting procedures and explain its
purpose.
The organization consist motivational practices
and effective medications which helps to
children or young people for overcoming the
trauma in order to attend school or vocational
education.
Te organisation policy includes to make
effective communication, remain friendly and
careful while dealing with child or young
person. It consist procedures like counselling,
conduct liked activities of patient, maintain
peaceful atmosphere and medication on time.
Provide 3 examples of
how you have
supported the child/
young person with
their education.
Example 1: What?
I have supported them
by helping them to
overcome with
specific trauma and
motivate to gain
proper and complete
education
Example 2: What?
I can support them by
conveying them actual
importance of
education in their lives
to encourage them
towards their bright
future.
Example 3: What?
I can help them by
providing proper
treatment and
medications along
with providing suitable
environment to
remove their fear and
increase confidence to
face the society.
Explain how each
example has helped to
keep the YP engaged
in education.
How?
With the help of
conducting
counselling daily and
providing desired
medications on time.
How?
It can be done with the
help of making
effective
communication and
generating their
dreams towards career.
How?
It will help them to
overcome with trauma
and provide strength to
engage in education
again for their better
career and life.
6. Trauma Informed Practice
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a. Referencing
your learners
guide and
course material
provide 3
examples how
you and your
organisation
can undertake
Trauma
Informed
practice when
working with
children and
young people?
Practice 1
Children and service
recipients will
routinely screened for
any symptom related
to trauma-exposure.
Practice 2
Appropriate evidence-
based assessment that
includes culturally
treatment procedure
will use for mental
health and other
symptoms of traumatic
stress.
Practice 3
Will engage in
increasing efforts that
strengthen the
protective factors and
resilience of young
children that impacted
by trauma.
b. Name two of the
trauma informed
concepts or brain
physiology knowledge
that you have learnt
from this course?
Explain how you apply them
in your practice.
Concept 1
Brainstorming: Supporting the
individuals and helping them
to describe their problems in
words, is considered as best
practices of health care
organisations. Through this
practice, health practitioners
can help young children to
overcome from trauma and
generate calming skills.
Concept 2
Maintain the positivity and
environment of care will help
organisations and service
providered in addressing,
minimising and analysing
about how to treat secondary
traumatic stress. This would
help in increasing staff
resilience as well.
c. Children primarily seek Attachment
rather than Safety. Explain what
Attachment Theory is by naming and
Attachment theory refers to a psychological
model that entails the dynamics of short-term
and long-term interpersonal relationship
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describing the four main types of
Attachment.
between humans. In context with children who
are suffering from a trauma primarily seek to
receive emotional support instead of protection
from caregivers. Therefore, for successful
social and emothional development of child
and young ones, it is basic duty of care
providers to make an interpersonal relationship
with them. This would help in developing
interaction with such childs and understanding
their needs as well. In this regard, four main
types of attachment theory includes -
1. Secure attachment
2. Anxious-ambivalent attachment
3. Anxious-avoidant attachment
4. Disorganised attachment
Here, secure attachment is generally occurred
when children facing complex trauma that they
can trust on service providers, to meet their
needs of emotional support, promixity and
protection. While anxious-ambivalent occurs
when child feel extremely distressed after
seprating from caregivers and respond
aggressively after returning of them. In case of
avoidant attachment, it is completely
oppositive of anxious attachment, where
children remain unresponsive of departure or
arrival of care takers. The last theory i.e.
disorganised-disoriented attachment shows
conflicting behaviour of child that can be
directed by their facial expression like fear,
confusion, dazed look and more.
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d. Taking into consideration privacy and
confidentiality explain in at least two
paragraphs an example of when you
have supported a child or YP with
helping them to resolve their trauma.
In your response answer the following points:
i. What was the YPs trauma background
ii. How did you identify the triggers?
iii. How did you engage the YP?
iv. What services did you engage?
v. What was the outcome?
vi. What would you do differently next
time?
(I) Intense and ongoing depression,
emotional upset, behavioural change,
anxiety and others.
(ii) by measuring the fear and anxiety level
of child as well as type of attachment
behaviour
(iii) Emphasise on continuity of case
as well as working for collaboration via
child-service system.
(iv) Trauma-informed services for child
welfare to engage children in development of
greater resilency.
(v) Building a trauma-informed practice will
help in protecting children and their family
members from complex trauma.
(vi) Will maintain an environment of care first
for developing staff resilience in order to
provide best services for child welfare.
vii. Explain the role of sensory triggers and
'flashbacks' when talking about trauma.
(I) A tigger refers to a stimulus that remind the
past trauma that causes a person to feel
anxiety, panic and sadness. It may also indulge
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viii. What are they?
ix. How and why do they occur?
x. What impacts do they have on YPs?
a person in flashback of negative memory.
(ii) When children faces a similar type of
threatening situation that they have already felt
in past then this would arise the triggers with
trauma again in their mind.
(iii) Any trigger with trauma may impact
significantly on future behavioural, mental and
physical health as well as emotional
development of young people.
7. Psychological therapeutic supports
a. What is the organisation’s process for
referrals to support the recovery of
trauma and engage psychological
therapy for the child or young person?
Reference the Organisational document
name.
Building trauma-informed system; assessing
and treating trauma; screening and assessment
of trauma in youth and chilfren; availability of
resources for families and caregivers etc. are
some procedures adopted by organisations for
recovery of trauma.
(https://www.childhood.org.au/)
b. Provide one example of where you
have supported a child or YP to help
resolve their trauma.
c. What was the YPs trauma background
d. How did you identify the triggers?
e. How did you engage the YP?
f. What services did you engage?
g. What was the outcome? What would
you do differently next time?
(I) Abuse, neglect and violence at home, can
corrupt love for children. In this regard, I have
seen a case where my neighbour is having a
young girl of age 6 years, like to always play
with toys.
(ii) But from few months I have seen sudden
changes in her behaviour where young girl
always seem to have a trauma of fear.
(iii) Therefore, as a counsellor I have analysed
that one of her mother's friend has abused her.
In this regard, I have helped her in discovering
child and healing her trauma.
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8. Leaving Care
a. Describe 3 ways of
how you should
prepare a young
person to transition
from out of home care.
Explain why these are
important?
Help Children in
defend through art and
power of love. It will
help them to gain
confidence and
strength to face the
society.
Motivate them to
improve morale by
counselling to
encourage them to
attend education
centre.
Effective medications
to overcome with
trauma to reduce fear.
b. What is the organisations policy on the
appropriate level of contact with the
child or YP once they are out of the
care of the organisation? Name the
policy document and how you found it.
The discharge documents are prepared which
are found in administration department.
c. What is your view on your
organisations policy about leaving care
age and post care contact?
The organisational policies are much effective
to deal with children and young people facing
Trauma which helps them to overcome with
the same and return back to their normal life.
d. Do you think the leaving care age in
Victoria should be extended from 18 to
21years of age? Why? Why not?
The leaving age should be extended for
avoiding problem of abuse and individuals to
get chance to mature enough to deal with such
troubles properly.
e. Explain your answers referencing recent
social policy and new reports about the
appropriateness of leaving care at the age of 18
years.
The social policy consist decisions, plans and
actions which years then they leave care.
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Assessment Task 3 Self Care Reflective writing
Self-Assessment Activity One
Vicarious trauma can be categorised
into emotional, behavioural, cognitive,
and physical / physiological signs and
symptoms. In reflecting on vicarious
trauma, answer the following questions.
1. What is Vicarious Trauma?
Identify 3 signs or symptoms that
may indicate that you or a co-
worker are experiencing vicarious
trauma.
The vicarious trauma refers to a
transformation in self of trauma worker or
helper that facilitate from empathetic
engagement with traumatised clients and
their reports of traumatic experiences. It
includes symptoms like feelings of sadness,
grief and irritability.
2. Identify the potential impact each
sign or symptom may have your
ability to successfully complete
your role as Care Worker.
They become confused and get irritated
easily which impacts potentially on their
work due to which roles cannot be
completed properly.
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3. Identify how these impacts could
affect the children or YPs you work
with?
This impacts negatively while working with
children and young people because they
need extra care which cannot be doe
properly that has side effects on progress of
patients.
Referring to your completed self-care
assessment , provide a response to the
following questions:
4. Identify and describe which
particular area of self-care do you
already do well. How do you know
this?
I can deal with children in well mannered
because I have an ability to become friendly
with them and gain their cooperation to
provide appropriate treatment. I known this
because of my experiences of working with
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kids and expertise in this area which reflect
in positive outcomes.
5. Identify and describe which
particular area of self-care do you
need to improve on. How do you
know this?
I need improve my working with young
people as I am unable to deal with them
accurately. I know this because of facing
many problem while treating young patients.
6. List five positive activities that you
can do to improve your current
approach to self-care.
1. Identify the best days and times to
complete each of these activities.
2. List the reasons why these activities
will improve your self-care.
 Work in young patient ward.
 Take guidance of experts
 gains suggestions of superiors
 Attend relevant training sessions
 learning programs
1. The senior guidance and training program
are best ways to complete learning.
2. These activities are helpful to improve my
skills and abilities to deal with young people
and provide more effective treatment to
them for making them healthy very soon.
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7. Identify 2 support services either in
your workplace or externally that
you or other colleagues could talk
to manage re-traumatisation and/or
vicarious trauma?
Explain how you would go about engaging
these services.
1. Appropriate training and supervision to
manage vicarious trauma.
2. Gain therapies to manage re-
traumatisation
We can appeal in an organisation to provide
related learning sessions to manage the
vicarious trauma.
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