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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Social and Political Science : Social Work

Postgraduate Course: Working with Complexity in Social Work (PG) (SCWR11034)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Social and Political Science CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits40 ECTS Credits20
SummaryThis course is taught using a variety of teaching and learning approaches including lectures and small groups. The course builds on previous teaching on the theory, skills and values of social work in its different contexts and takes it into the more complex areas of social work, in Scotland and beyond. This will be done through teaching and learning on subjects which will include risk, risk assessment and management, trust and need, boundaries and responsibilities, abuse and protection, ethics and values, support and empowerment of service users across a range of service user groups.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of the course, students will be able to apply critical analysis, evaluation and synthesis to the following issues:
1. Complex relationships between risk, trust and need in social work and social care;
2. Tensions between competing values, rights, needs and responsibilities in making assessments and delivering interventions to a diverse group of service users;
3. The contested nature of social work within its wider political and global context;
4. The nature, characteristics and boundaries of professional activity and judgement in an uncertain and changing policy and practice arena.
Three main SiESWE learning requirements will be principally addressed in this course: units 3,4 and 6.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information 10 hours lectures per week for 6 weeks
and
4 hours group work per week for 6 weeks
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Viviene Cree
Tel: (0131 6)50 3927
Email: Viv.Cree@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Jane Marshall
Tel: (0131 6)50 3912
Email: jane.marshall@ed.ac.uk
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