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Professional Writing

Course CodeCYCP-215
Lecture hours per week
Lab hours per week
Course AvailabilityOpen
Description

The professional development of child and youth care practitioners includes the ability to articulate objectively and professionally in writing. Report writing is a challenging and important part of a child and youth care practitioner’s clinical experience. This course will give the child and youth care student essential information and guidance for writing a variety of clinical reports or documentation required in this field from a strength-based perspective. It will help the child and youth care student gain confidence in their ability to write in a professional manner.

Professional recording tasks include: preparing & writing clinical reports, formal recording and legal documentation; understanding what to put in reports; learning how to organize clinical information and how to choose the correct terms to use; understanding the importance of record keeping; and further development in the skill of observation and inference.

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