Postgraduate Course: Working with Complexity in Social Work 2(PG) (SCWR11008)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Social and Political Science |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits |
40 |
| Home subject area |
Social Work |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None
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Taught in Gaelic? |
No |
| Course description |
This course is taught using a variety of teaching and learning approaches including lectures and small groups. The course will build upon previous teaching on the theory, skills and values of social work in its different contexts and take it into the more complex areas of social work. This will be done through teaching and learning on risk, risk assessment and management, ideas of trust and need, boundaries & responsibilities, child abuse & the development of child protection, child protection law, adult protection, power, risk, modernity / postmodern ethics, moral panics, international perspectives on social welfare and social work skills.
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Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Block 1 (Sem 1), Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
| Additional information |
6 hour(s) per week for 6 week(s). |
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course participants will be able to apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to the following issues:
1. Complex relationships between risk, trust and need in the context of a managerialist agenda in social care;
2. Complex relationships between justice, care and control in social welfare and community justice and the practical and ethical implications of these;
3. Identify and critically discuss the tensions and competing rights and needs in complex child and adult protection cases
4. The political nature of social work and welfare;
5. International perspectives on social welfare
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Assessment Information
To be notified
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Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords |
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Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Viviene Cree
Tel: (0131 6)50 3927
Email: Viv.Cree@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Mrs Jane Marshall
Tel: (0131 6)50 3912
Email: jane.marshall@ed.ac.uk |
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