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 196-016 Practice with Individuals and Families

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

1

Coordinator

Mr Stuart Evans

Prerequisites

196-006 Social Work Theory & Practice 2 and196-008 Supervised Professional Practice 1A#and 196-023 Supervised Professional Practice 1B#.

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

A 1-hour lecture and a 2-hour seminar per week

Subject Description

This subject is focused on social work intervention in direct family-based practice. In particular it is concerned with extending the student's ability to make a competent psycho-social assessment and develop a consequent feasible plan of intervention upon which the outcome of casework intervention can be evaluated. Students will be introduced to a range of contemporary theoretical frameworks relevant to casework intervention. Emphasis will be placed upon the student's capacity to critically evaluate theory and to use the casework process itself as a method of generating knowledge from practice. Issues relating to the worker-client relationship and to value and ethical questions in day-to-day practice will be explored, and the organisational context and the service network within which social casework is practised will also be considered.

Assessment

Assessment in this subject may include participation in a computer-based multimedia exercise, and submission of syndicated class material and independent written work, totalling not more than 4000 words. Attendance at a minimum of 75% of seminars is a hurdle requirement for this subject.

Prescribed Texts

A subject reader will be available.

  • D Hepworth R H Rooney & J Larsen, Direct Social Work Practice. (5th ed) Brooks/Cole, 1997.
  • F J Turner (ed), Social Work Treatment: Interlocking Theoretical Approaches. (4th ed) The Free Press, 1996.
  • D Collins, C Jordan & H Coleman, An Introduction to Family Social Work. FE Peacock, 1999.
  • I Goldenberg & H Goldenberg, Family Therapy: An Overview. (4th ed) Brooks/Cole, 1996.
  • M P Nichols & R C Schwartz, Family Therapy: Concepts & Methods. (4th ed) Allyn & Bacon, 1998.
  • F J Turner (ed), Differential Diagnosis and Treatment in Social Work. (4th ed) The Free Press, 1995.
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