General information
| Course type | AMUPIE |
| Module title | Protection of children at risk of social maladjustment - a comparative approach |
| Language | English |
| Module lecturer | dr Paulina Perska-Gradowska |
| Lecturer's email | pperska@amu.edu.pl |
| Lecturer position | |
| Faculty | Faculty of Educational Studies |
| Semester | 2024/2025 (summer) |
| Duration | 30 |
| ECTS | 3 |
| USOS code | 11-PCHR-11-a |
Timetable
Module aim (aims)
- Describe the notion of social maladjustment and its causes
- Describe the social maladjustment prevention system and its elements
- Describe and compare measures to respond to social maladjustment
- Present international regulations regarding the protection of children and European systems related to social maladjustment and juvenile delinquency
- Compare the systems of protection against social maladjustment in educational and legal terms
Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)
Syllabus
- Introduction
- Defining social maladjustment
- Causes and conditions of social maladjustment
- Social maladjustment prevention system
- The role of the family in the prevention system
- The school's preventive task
- Judicial institutions as an element of the prevention system
- System of reaction to symptoms of social maladjustment
- International regulations regarding the protection of children
- International regulations regarding the protection of children
- European systems for dealing with socially maladjusted children and juvenile offenders
- The system of protection against social maladjustment form a comparative perspective - introduction
- The system of protection against social maladjustment system in selected countries
- Educational work with a child with social maladjustment
- Conclusion and assessment
Reading list
Center D. B. (1990). Social maladjustment: An interpretation. Behavioral Disorders, 15, 141–148.
Cloth, A. H., Evans, S. W., Becker, S. P., & Paternite, C. E. (2014). Social Maladjustment and Special Education: State Regulations and Continued Controversy. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 22(4), 214–224.
Dünkel F. (2014). Juvenile Justice Systems in Europe – Reform developments between justice, welfare and ‘new punitiveness’1. Kriminologijos studijos. 1.
Kamiński, A. (2016). Symptoms of youth social maladjustment. New tendencies. Journal of Education Culture and Society, 7(2), 189–198
Kazdin A. (1987). Conduct disorders in childhood and adolescence. Newbury Park, CA: Sage
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC)
United Nations Guidelines for the Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency: The Riyadh guidelines (A/RES/45/112)
United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Administration of Juvenile Justice (The Beijing Rules)