Postgraduate Course: Working with Complexity in Social Work (PG) (SCWR11034)
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. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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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.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Additional Class Delivery Information |
10 hours lectures per week for 6 weeks
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4 hours group work per week for 6 weeks |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Viviene Cree
Tel: (0131 6)50 3927
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Course secretary | Mrs Jane Marshall
Tel: (0131 6)50 3912
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