Summary of Interview On September 14th 2012, I sat down to interview a faculty in the Child and Youth Work Program at Centennial College. This faculty has recently developed a course for students in their third year of the Child and Youth Work Program. The specific course is called Evidence Based Practice. The faculty describes the course as one that is designed to help students make informed choices about adopting the programs for developing the core social, emotional and life- “best” long learning skills children and adolescents need to become productive and contributing members of society. Emphasis in this course is placed on providing students with the tools and resources needed to locate and select a research-based program or combination of programs that will be effective in a particular setting with a specific population. This course teaches students to identify a need and through well constructed research to find evidence based treatment interventions (Faculty, personal communication, September 14, 2012). Rationale for developing this course is identified by this faculty as occurring for two reasons. Most importantly, trends in the of Child and Youth Work indicated that students no longer need to be able to create programs as had been the case in previous years and in an earlier version of this course, but now must be able to examine the existing literature on mental health issues and implement treatment that is shown to be beneficial to clients. The second reason identified by this faculty was the natural timing of the Child and Youth Work programs scheduled curriculum review. The curriculum review provided the opportunity to remove a course that no longer met the needs of the students and to develop one that did (Faculty, personal communication, September 14, 2012). When asked to recall the stops taken and decisions made from the beginning of the course design to the actual implementation, this faculty recalls several key elements. First this faculty
Summary of Interview On September 14th 2012, I sat down to interview a faculty in the Child and Youth Work Program at Centennial College. This faculty has recently developed a course for students in their third year of the Child and Youth Work Program. The specific course is called Evidence Based Practice. The faculty describes the course as one that is designed to help students make informed choices about adopting the “best” programs for developing the core social, emotional and life- long learning skills children and adolescents need to become productive and contributing members of society. Emphasis in this course is placed on providing students with the tools and resources needed to locate and select a research-based program or combination of programs that will be effective in a particular setting with a specific population. This course teaches students to identify a need and through well constructed research to find evidence based treatment interventions (Faculty, personal communication, September 14, 2012). Rationale for developing this course is identified by this faculty as occurring for two reasons. Most importantly, trends in the of Child and Youth Work indicated that students no longer need to be able to create programs as had been the case in previous years and in an earlier version of this course, but now must be able to examine the existing literature on mental health issues and implement treatment that is shown to be beneficial to clients. The second reason identified by this faculty was the natural timing of the Child and Youth Work programs scheduled curriculum review. The curriculum review provided the opportunity to remove a course that no longer met the needs of the students and to develop one that did (Faculty, personal communication, September 14, 2012). When asked to recall the stops taken and decisions made from the beginning of the course design to the actual implementation, this faculty recalls several key elements. First this faculty
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