Latest Module Specifications
Current Academic Year 2025 - 2026
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Description In this module, students will critically explore contemporary and emerging trends in community-based interdisciplinary health and wellbeing service provision for children, young people and their families. Students will examine evidence-focused approaches including early years interventions, integrated care, and care closer to home for children and young people with chronic conditions and complex continuing care needs. Students will be encouraged and facilitated to reflect on their own personal and professional practice by sharing their experiences, knowledge and expertise through in-class discussions, tutorials, lectures and assignments. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Learning Outcomes 1. Critically analyse contemporary and emerging trends in the organisation and delivery of care in the community, including care closer to home, to promote the health and wellbeing of the child, young person and their family across the age trajectories. 2. Critically evaluate inter-disciplinary/integrated care approaches/community partnerships to care including shared models of service provision, equity and accessibility of services that promote the health and well-being of the child, young person and their family. 3. Critically consider how reflection can be used to advance learning and advance their area of practice. 4. Critically appraise national and international research and policy that influence how inter-disciplinary support and care is provided and delivered to children and their families in the community. 5. Appraise the role and range of early year’s interventions and community based health interventions that promote health and wellbeing for the child and family. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml |
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Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Approaches to shared service community based healthcare and CCTH for the child and family • The historical context of the provision and evolvement of primary healthcare for children and their families to include policy, governance and current research at national and international level. • Models of care closer to home (CCTH) and integrated care pathways for children and their families nationally and internationally. • Communication pathways across services and shared models of interdisciplinary service provision for children and their families. • Accessibility, equity, equality and diversity in the provision of care to children and their families. The provision of care in the community for children with complex continuing care needs • Evolving practice and contemporary approaches to care for children with complex continuing healthcare needs and their families. • Key pressure points in the delivery of care closer to home. • Technology and the child with complex continuing care needs • The physical/psychological/psychosocial effects on parents, siblings and extended family • The delivery of respite and palliative care/end of life care for the child, young person and their family with CCCN Early Years’ Interventions promoting health and wellbeing • Factors that influence child health and well-being in the early years (0-5 years). • Complex and non-complex needs assessment for children with a disability including early intervention teams (EIT), and school-aged teams (SAT). • Inter-disciplinary approaches and strategies that incorporate child/family based interventions to support child health and well-being (early years). • Community based health promotion strategies for children/YP and their families. • Risk and protective factors that influence child health and wellbeing (early years). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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