Collaboration with a child in social work

The thematic emphases of the course are:

• Understanding childhood, understanding the role of the child in society, changing conceptions of the child and his role throughout history.
• Establishment of a working relationship and personal contact with the child according to the child's individual stage of development, the goals of the counselling process, evaluation of the success of the social work conversation/collaboration with the child (termination of collaboration with the child).
• The contribution of various skills to the establishment of a working relationship of co-creation with the child (attachment theory; knowledge of trauma; solution-oriented social work, socio-emotional development of the child).
• Children's participation in the co-creation working relationship: definitions of participation, conditions and barriers to achieving children's participation.
• Understanding and strengthening children's resilience.
• Dealing with the child's emotions.
• Skills for co-creating a conversation with the child.
• Use of expressive and creative media in participation with the child (K. Treisman, F. Caroll; L. Lowenstein).