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GWL308 - Dementia: Family and Caregiving Issues

This subject explores dementia, its causes, and effects. The impact of caring for and/or living with a person with dementia is also explored.

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GWL347 - Integrative Field Work Seminar

This subject continues to integrate the student's fieldwork experience and academic studies with a focus on mental health and wellness issues related to aging. This seminar is a progressive learning experience for students supporting their placement experience with weekly online debriefing activities, constructive peer feedback, course work, and aging related skills in the industry. Assessment, identification, interventions and contemporary treatment options for older adults with mental health issues will be explored and practiced in the field. In addition, risk assessment and interventions to lower risk will be identified and practiced. An overview of the DSM5 as it relates to older adults will be provided and applied to the GWL357 fieldwork experience. A particular focus on the impact of pandemics on this population, living and dying in isolation and the COVID-19 related trauma experienced by this population and their caregivers will be discussed.  Placement/adjustment trauma and isolation trauma will be covered in this course along with marginalization of specific populations. This course is designed to build on continued agency field skills in a variety of areas including but, not limited to; team building, networking, interviewing and assessment, service coordination, identifying needs and gaps in care for the elderly and their caregivers, effective leadership skills, self-reflection and awareness, the giving and receiving of feedback, self-care and time management skills. This program recognizes and practices from empowerment, anti-oppressive, inclusive, and harm reduction frameworks.

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GWL357 - Gerontology Field Work

This course description and program has been adapted to the COVID-19 remote-learning policies until such time as it is safe for students to return to placement sites.
 
Students are required to successfully complete a reduced 160 assigned hours in a faculty approved geriatric fieldwork agency or organization. No more than 40 hours can be supplemented by the faculty-approved online learning opportunities.  All students must be affiliated with an agency even if the fieldwork is remote in nature. The student's learning is guided by their learning contract and is supported and evaluated throughout the placement by a team composed of the student, a designated staff person of the field agency, and the assigned Seneca Field Liaison. This learning contract guides the student's professional growth in the field by applying their academic course knowledge to the practical skills learned in the field. The student also attends a weekly debriefing seminar with their peers to identify any issues, learning opportunities and practice self-reflection in a supportive environment. Students must attend both field placement and seminar sessions to pass both courses as they are co-requisites for each other. Students are expected to apply their communication and interviewing skills, practice cultural humility, think critically about oppression and power differences as it applies to the geriatric population. Of critical concern is the understanding and application of universal precautions when working in high risk (disease or harm) environments, evaluating for levels of risk, and identifying abuse and neglect when witnessed or suspected. Students are required to report any suspicion of elder abuse or neglect to their liaison and seminar instructor within 24 hours. Students are also expected to maintain the confidentiality of their client and agency. 

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GWL377 - Volunteer Program Management

In this course students learn the scope of practice and professional values and steps of volunteer program management within the framework of Volunteer Canada's Standards of Practices. They learn how to plan, implement, and evaluate volunteer programs. There is an emphasis on interacting with seniors as volunteers, as the baby boom generation becomes a major source of potential volunteers. Students will have the opportunity to practice and apply skills relating to various components of the volunteer program management process.

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SSW311 - Service Coordination and Advocacy

This course is designed to provide students with an introduction to both, traditional case management skills and empowerment-oriented service coordination skills. Both perspectives and skill types are utilized in the helping professions when performing case work services for clients/allies and communities. Service Coordinators are often required to:

a) identify client strengths and needs,

b) develop goals and a plan with the client,

c) identify available resources for which the client is eligible,

d) link and coordinate services,

e) monitor client progress, close or discharge files, and

f) provide direct services to diverse populations in a variety of agency settings with limited resources.

Students will gain knowledge of the roles and responsibilities of a case worker in working with diverse service users. Skills such as; information gathering, strengths identification, the use of the industries? common tools of assessment and service requests, completing common forms, client-directed goal setting and planning from a holistic approach will be introduced. The use of empowerment-oriented ?inclusive? language will be developed while learning critical documentation skills from an anti-oppressive framework.

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GEN001 - General Education Option

According to the Ministry of Training, Colleges, and Universities, ?the purpose of General Education in the Ontario college system is to contribute to the development of citizens who are conscious of the diversity, complexity, and richness of the human experience; who are able to establish meaning through this consciousness; and, who, as a result, are able to contribute thoughtfully, creatively, and positively to the society in which they live and work. General Education strengthens students' generic skills, such as critical analysis, problem solving, and communication, in the context of an exploration of topics with broad-based personal and / or societal importance?. Please contact the School of English and Liberal Studies at your campus to find out more about the variety of General Education courses from which you can choose.

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