| CODE | SWP5136 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Methods and Processes in Social Work | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Social Policy and Social Work | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This focus of this study-unit will be basic social work theory. It will provide a foundation in terms of social work theory. The content covered includes: - historical development and perspectives; - the social work process; - the interaction process; - different types of of social work practice: casework, groupwork, residential social work, community work; - client groups; - recording practices in social work. Study-Unit Aims: - To provide students with an understanding of what social work is about, encouraging them to consider social work from different perspectives; - To present the different facets of social work, focusing on the different forms of social work practice, such as case work, group work, residential social work and community work; - To inform students of the various client groups who social workers work with; - To familiarise students with the social work process from the point of engagement through assessment, intervention, evaluation and ending; - To inform students of the helping skills which they are required to acquire knowledge of, and develop to become social workers. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - discuss the elements which distinguish social work as a profession by categorising those characteristics which are particular to social work; - describe and discuss the historical development of social work as a profession in the international and local context; - describe the social work process endeavour from the point of engagement through assessment, intervention, evaluation and ending; - discuss the different forms of social work practice, including casework, groupwork, residential social work and community work, establishing particular examples related to each form; - describe and discuss the different client groups who social workers work with; - discuss the different uses of social work records; - discuss the contents of the Data Protection Act and its relevance for social workers; - list, describe and discuss the roles which social work enact; - list, describe and discuss the interventive methods social workers enact. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - given case studies, explore in an essay, how they would plan and proceed with their work as social workers through the use of the social work process; - given case studies, identify problems, and describe in an essay, the knowledge which they have used to identify problems in case situations; - given a case situation, formulate a social work service agreement, with well-formed goals. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Barker, R.L. (2003). The Social Work Dictionary. Washington, DC: NASW Press. - Kemp, S.P. (2007). Social Work with Communities. In M.A. Mattaini and C.T Lowery (Eds.), Foundations of Social Work Practice. (4th ed.) (pp. 317-354). Washington, DC: NASW Press. - Howe, D. (2009). A Brief Introduction to Social Work Theory. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. - Johnson, L.C. and Yanca, S. J. (2007). Social Work Practice : a generalist approach. (9th ed.) Boston: Pearson Education, Inc. - Kirst-Ashman, K. (2014). Human Behaviour in the Macro Social Environment (4th ed.) Belmont, CA: Brooks Cole. - Magen, R.H. (2007). Social Work with Groups. In M.A. Mattaini and C.T Lowery (Eds.), Foundations of Social Work Practice. (4th ed.) (pp. 291-315). Washington, DC: NASW Press. - Mattaini, M.A. (2007). Social Work with Individuals. In M.A. Mattaini and C.T Lowery (Eds.), Foundations of Social Work Practice (4th ed.) (pp. 217-257). Washington, DC: NASW Press. - Milner, J., & O’Bryne, P. (2009). Assessment in social work. (3rd edition). New York: Palgrave Macmillan. - Richmond, M. (1917). Social Diagnosis. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. - Sheafor, B., & Horejsi, C. (2008). Techniques and guidelines for social work practice. (8th edition). Boston: Allyn & Bacon. - Teater, B. (2014). An Introduction to Applying Social Work Theories and Methods (2nd ed.) England: Open University Press. - Twelvetrees, A. (2008). Community Work. (4th ed.) Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan. - Compton, B., Galaway, B. and Cournoyer, B.R. (2005) Social Work Processes. (7th ed.) California: Brooks/Cole. - Johnson, L.C. and Yanca, S. J. (2010). Social Work Practice: A Generalist Approach (10th ed.). Boston: Allyn & Bacon. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Jennifer Azzopardi Samuel Fenech Catherine Fleri Soler Dolores Gauci John Role David Schembri Daniella Zerafa |
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