WS3515 - Social Work and Welfare Practice

Credit points:	03
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:

Available to BSW and BCW students only or by permission of Head of School.

The subject focuses on the various fields of practice in which social workers and welfare workers engage. This includes work with specific populations (children, youth, adults, etc), contexts and agency types (community-based, government, non-governments, etc), legal issues, violence and grief and loss.

Learning Outcomes

• understand the impact of interventions by developing an awareness of how different theoretical models of practice direct the use of different types of interventions, strategies and skills;
• extend understanding in relation to the impact of dimensions such as age, race, gender, culture, location and abilities, on social work and welfare delivery in practice;
• explore the various contexts of social work and welfare practice;
• explore a number of issues relevant to social work and welfare practice.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area.

Prerequisites:	WS2014 and WS2019 and WS2510 and WS2511 and WS2512 and WS2513
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	WS3512

Availabilities
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Census Date 31-Mar-2005
Coord/Lect:	swref.
Contact hours:	48 hours
Assessment:	(50%); (50%).
, , Study Period 1
Census Date 31-Mar-2005
Coordinator:	Professor Debra Miles
Contact hours:	26 hours
Assessment:	(50%); (50%).
, , Study Period 1
Census Date 31-Mar-2005
Coord/Lect:	Professor Debra Miles.
Contact hours:	39 hours
Assessment:	(50%); (50%).
, Study Period 1
Census Date 31-Mar-2005
Coord/Lect:	Professor Debra Miles.
Contact hours:	10 hours - 10 hours of study per week required.
Method of Delivery:	Printed materials
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Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.