Course - Critical perspectives on child welfare decisions - MBV3004
MBV3004 - Critical perspectives on child welfare decisions
About
Examination arrangement
Examination arrangement: Home examination
Grade: Letter grades
| Evaluation | Weighting | Duration | Grade deviation | Examination aids |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home examination | 100/100 | 3 days | ||
| Home examination | 100/100 | 14 days | A |
Course content
Various opportunities, challenges and dilemmas are linked to the role as a decision-maker in the municipal child welfare service. Within the frontline of child welfare, the most complex and intrusive decisions are made in the welfare state, often decisions that can have major consequences for vulnerable children and families.
The child welfare service's mandate, framework conditions, political guidelines and different knowledge perspectives influence the practical child welfare work. The course focuses on how the decision-maker can make good decisions through the development of competence in navigating an ethically demanding decision-making landscape.
Learning outcome
Knowledge about:
- advanced decision-making perspectives in child welfare
- complexity associated with different types of decisions and decision contexts
- evaluation of child welfare interventions
Skills:
- can identify and critically discuss the importance of different knowledge perspectives in the field of child welfare, and deal with professional and value uncertainty in assessments of the child's best interests
- can collaborate with other agencies and apply an interdisciplinary knowledge base in the reporting, investigation and initiative work
- can analyze conditions that safeguard and prevent participation for children and parents who are in contact with the child welfare service
- can facilitate decision-making processes that promote good cooperation with children, parents and the child's network, and that take into account the family's socio-economic and cultural situation
- can evaluate the impact of child welfare interventions for vulnerable children and families
General competence:
- can identify and discuss ethical challenges that may arise between children, parents, child welfare and civil society as a result of the child welfare decision-making mandate and values
- can contribute to new thinking and innovation in decision-making in child welfare
Learning methods and activities
Seminars with group work and oral presentation, lectures, digital colloquium groups, self-study.
Compulsory assignments
- Written assignment
Further on evaluation
Home exam, 14 days
Compulsory activity in the form of a written assignment must be approved to sit for the exam.
The compulsory activities are approved for 4 years. If more than four years have passed since the approved compulsory activity, the student must carry out compulsory activities again in order to take the exam.
Specific conditions
Admission to a programme of study is required:
Child Welfare Work (MBVARB)
Child Welfare and Child Pretection (MBV)
Required previous knowledge
The course has admission right requirements, which means that the course is reserved for students who have been admitted to study Master's degree in Child Welfare Work and Master's degree in Child Welfare and Child Protection at NTNU. Students admitted to a similar master's degree can be admitted after individual assessment.
Course materials
The syllabus list is published on Blackboard at the start of the course.
No
Version: 1
Credits:
7.5 SP
Study level: Second degree level
Term no.: 1
Teaching semester: SPRING 2025
Language of instruction: Norwegian
Location: Trondheim
- Social Sciences
Examination
Examination arrangement: Home examination
- Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
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Autumn
ORD
Home examination
100/100
Release
2024-11-05Submission
2024-11-08
10:00
INSPERA
12:00 -
Room Building Number of candidates -
Spring
ORD
Home examination
100/100
A
Release
2025-04-10Submission
2025-04-28
10:00
INSPERA
12:00 -
Room Building Number of candidates
- * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
For more information regarding registration for examination and examination procedures, see "Innsida - Exams"