Postgraduate Course: Working with Complexity in Social Work 2 (PG) (SCWR11008)

Course Outline
School	School of Social and Political Science	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	40	ECTS Credits	20
Summary	This course is taught using a variety of teaching and learning approaches including lectures and small groups. The course builds on previous teaching on the theory, skills and values of social work in its different contexts and takes it into the more complex areas of social work, in Scotland and beyond. This will be done through teaching and learning on subjects which will include risk, risk assessment and management, trust and need, boundaries and responsibilities, abuse and protection, ethics and values, support and empowerment of service users across a range of service user groups.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites	Students MUST have passed: Social Work in Communities (PG) (SCWR10025) AND Doing Social Work Research (SCWR11027) AND Working with Complexity in Social Work 1 (UG) (SCWR10020) AND Practice Learning in Social Work 1(PG) (SCWR11015) AND Practice Study in Social Work 1 (PG) (SCWR11016) AND Students MUST have passed: Social Science for Social Work (PGSP10001)	Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course, students will be able to apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to the following issues: 1. Complex relationships between risk, trust and need in social work and social care; 2. Tensions between competing values, rights, needs and responsibilities in making assessments and delivering interventions to a diverse group of service users; 3. The contested nature of social work within its wider political and global context; 4. The nature, characteristics and boundaries of professional activity and judgement in an uncertain and changing policy and practice arena. Three main SiESWE learning requirements will be principally addressed in this course: units 3,4 and 6.