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WS3025:03

Advanced Group Work

Townsville, Cairns, Mackay, External

HECS Band 1

26 hours workshops/seminars. Semester 2.

Available to students enrolled in those degrees leading to a professional qualification or those offering a welfare studies major.

Staff:

Mr L Bainbridge (Townsville and Mackay campus);

Ms D Nilsson (Cairns campus).

This subject will study the roles of groupwork and group workers in social welfare practice. Students will learn about the dynamics of group work through group interaction by experiencing the dual roles of participator/observer and by running and taking part in micro-skills and activity skills workshops.

Learning Objectives:

understand the rationale for group work in social welfare practice;

understand the theories and parameters of group structure and their relevance to both group tasks and group processes;

understand the phases of group development across a variety of settings;

understand the dynamics of team work in an organisational setting.

Assessment by workshop/seminar planning and presentation and defence (50%); written paper comprising journals/reflections/statement of learning (50%).