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  • Unit Title

    Case Management and Professional Skills

  • Unit Code

    CRI2101

  • Year

    2026

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    3

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Natalie GATELY

Description

Effective case management is a crucial tool in working with people experiencing complex social, legal, and psychological challenges. How do we support individuals involved in the justice system to reduce reoffending and improve their well-being? This unit explores the principles, skills, and ethical considerations of case management in justice, social work, and community settings. Students will delve into effective interviewing skills, motivational interviewing and trauma informed practice to promote client wellbeing and increase victim empathy. They will hone self-care practices to improve wellbeing and workplace resilience. Students will develop practical strategies for working with diverse populations, including individuals impacted by incarceration, substance use, mental health conditions, and homelessness.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Design ethical and innovative solutions, independently and collaboratively, to address a range of complex criminology and justice challenges.
  2. Use established and emerging digital technologies ethically, fluently and productively to investigate and respond to criminological and social justice issues.
  3. Communicate clearly and respectfully, demonstrating academic integrity and awareness of audience and context.
  4. Demonstrate integrity, autonomy, initiative, feedback literacy and responsibility in professional and academic contexts.

Unit Content

  1. Introduction to models of Case Management.
  2. Communication and interviewing skills.
  3. Risk assessment.
  4. Generating behaviour change.
  5. Case managing different populations.
  6. Trauma informed approaches.
  7. Vicarious trauma.
  8. Self-care and resilience.
  9. Critical, ethical and productive use of AI in learning and professional criminology and justice contexts.
  10. Giving and receiving constructive feedback well.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

City CampusJoondalupSouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PerformanceIntake Interview Simulation30%
Case StudyClient Case Plan - including evidence of learning30%
ReportCourt Report - including evidence of learning40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PerformanceIntake Interview Simulation30%
Case StudyClient Case Plan - including evidence of learning30%
ReportCourt Report - including evidence of learning40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

  • Plagiarism: Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).
  • Unauthorised collaboration (collusion): Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).
  • Contract cheating: Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.
  • Cheating in an exam: Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment Procedure - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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