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WS1004:03

Understanding Professional Helping

Townsville, Cairns, Mackay, External

HECS Band 1

20 hours lectures, 24 hours practicals or the equivalent in mixed mode on-campus delivery. Semester 2.

Staff:

Ms C Fatnowna (Townsville campus);

Ms G Galloway (Cairns campus).

This subject introduces students to the world of professional practice -- its issues, concerns, dilemmas and possibilities. The principles of social justice are considered in relation to such practice with emphasis given to group work methodology.

Learning Objectives:

understand the differences between professional and non-professional approaches to helping;

be able to articulate the theoretical and ideological bases of welfare practice;

engage a case scenario from a groupwork perspective demonstrating the ability to integrate theory with practice at the assessment, intervention and evaluation stages of professional practice.

Assessment by debate presentation (10%); group presentation of one theoretical paradigm to case studies (40%); individual written paper applying lecture and textbook material to a case study (50%).