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Understanding Complex and Challenging Needs

Postgraduate | LTU-DIS508 | 2020

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Build empathy for people with cognitive disabilities as you carve out an understanding of the aspects of life they may struggle with. Understand the challenging behaviours that they may show in the face of exclusion and how you can create change. 

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
Part of a degree
Duration
13 weeks

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Understanding Complex and Challenging Needs

About this subject

  • Note: This subject is a part of La Trobe University's Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma in Disability Practice, which will become available for application in Semester 2. Students who complete this subject in Semester 1 will be able to apply for credit towards these programs.

    Upon successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

    • Critique the way in which 'complex and challenging needs' are understood within the context of disability practice.
    • Appraise the evidence-base for the application of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) to the needs of individuals with cognitive disability.
    • Appraise the significance of different types of attachment in childhood, and how these are established, in order to understand the way adults approach relationships with others.
    • Critically evaluate the three different types of organised adult attachment and disorganized attachment to understand their relevance for care relationships between people with intellectual disabilities who are challenging, and parents and staff.
    • Critically appraise the concept of Psychologically-Informed Environments (PIE) and Trauma-Informed Care.
    • Critically appraise and defend judgements about the contexts in which either positive behaviour support, attachment or the creation of Psychologically-Informed Environments (PIE) are likely to be effective, separately or in combination

Entry requirements

To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.

Others

In order to enrol in this subject, students are required to apply to OUA's Postgraduate Single Subjects program (OUA-PSU-GCE).

https://www.open.edu.au/degrees/postgraduate-single-subjects-oua-oua-psu-gce?year=2019

Note: Students wishing to apply for either the Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma in Disability Practice based on the completion of postgraduate single subjects should familiarise themselves with La Trobe's advanced standing policy. A maximum of two (2) or four (4) subjects may be credited to the Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma programs, respectively.

https://www.latrobe.edu.au/students/getting-started/new-students/advanced-standing

Additional requirements

  • Other requirements -

    Class requirements:

    1 x 10 hours unscheduled online class per week from week 31 to week 43
    3 x 1 hour scheduled online class during semester, from week 31 to week 43

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.

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