WS3020:03
Violence and Social Welfare
Townsville
Inadmissable Subject Combination: CW3002
First semester. Flexible delivery.
Staff: Ms R Bone.
Students will be introduced to theoretical explanations and popular understandings of violent behaviour, will examine the consequences of violence against social welfare workers and appropriate intervention strategies to deal with that violence and will consider the implications for governmental and service providers’ policies on violence against social welfare workers.
Learning Objectives:
- to raise students’ awareness of violence and how it impacts on Human Service workers;
- to facilitate students’ understanding of aggressive behaviour;
- to investigate responses to violence that minimise risks to workers;
- to develop students’ ability (knowledge and skills) to recognise and predict potential and actual violence and in reducing or preventing the potential for violence;
- to investigate social welfare values and assumptions in relation to violence;
- to develop students’ awareness of issues relating to violence considering variables such as gender, ethnicity, culture, socio-economic background and age;
- to investigate personal and social costs to workers of being victims of aggression and violence;
- to develop students’ ability to consider the policy implications of potential and actual violence directed at social welfare workers.
Assessment by reading review (40%); case plan (60%).
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