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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module students should be able to:
Demonstrate a working knowledge of a number of key social work methods, including group work and community work
Critically analyse the strengths and weaknesses of a diverse range of methods
Demonstrate the links between theory, methods, and practice.
CORU Standards of Proficiency
The module content will begin to enable students to meet the following CORU standards:
Domain 1: Professional Autonomy and Accountability
2. Be able to identify the limits of their practice and know when to seek advice and additional expertise or refer to another professional.
3. Be able to act in the best interest of service users at all times with due regard to their will and preference.
5. Respect and uphold the rights, dignity and autonomy of every service user including their role in the diagnostic, therapeutic and social care process.
9. Recognise the importance of practicing in a non-discriminatory, culturally sensitive way and acknowledge and respect the differences in beliefs and cultural practices of individuals or groups.
18. Recognise personal responsibility and professional accountability for one’s actions and be able to justify professional decisions made.
19. Be able to take responsibility for managing one’s own workload.
Domain 2: Communication, Collaborative Practice and Teamworking
1. Be able to communicate diagnosis/assessment and/or treatment/management options in a way that can be understood by the service user including non-voluntary service users.
3. Recognise service users as active participants in their health and social care and be able to support service users in communicating their health and/or social care needs, choices and concerns.
12. Understand the need to work in partnership with service users, their relatives/carers, guardians and other professionals in planning and evaluating goals, treatments and interventions and be aware of the concepts of power and authority in relationships with service users.
Domain 3: Safety and Quality
1. Be able to gather all appropriate background information relevant to the service user’s health and social care needs.
2. Be able to justify the selection of and implement appropriate assessment techniques and be able to undertake and record a thorough, sensitive and detailed assessment.
4. Be able to analyse and critically evaluate the information collected in the assessment process.
5. Be able to demonstrate sound logical reasoning and problem-solving skills to determine appropriate problem lists, action plans and goals.
6. Be able to demonstrate an evidence-informed approach to professional decision-making, adapting practice to the needs of the service user and draw on appropriate knowledge and skills in order to make professional judgements.
Domain 4: Professional Development
3. Be able to evaluate and reflect critically on own professional practice to identify learning and development needs; be able to select appropriate learning activities to achieve professional
development goals and be able to integrate new knowledge and skills into professional practice.
5. Understand the importance of and be able to seek professional development, supervision, feedback and peer review opportunities in order to continuously improve practice.
Domain 5: Professional Knowledge and Skills
1. Know, understand, and apply the key concepts of the domains of knowledge which are relevant to the profession for individuals, groups and communities
2. Demonstrate a critical understanding of social work theory, methods and skills, social policy and social research, including consideration in a global context
3. Have a critical understanding of sociology, psychology, human growth and development, health, law, economics and political science
5. Critically understand and be able to apply principles of social justice in one’s work including being able to appropriately challenge negative discrimination and unjust policies and practices.
10. Critically understand the role and purpose of relationship-based practice, including the importance of planning the withdrawal of services.
11. Be able to maintain professional boundaries with service users within a variety of social work settings and be able to identify and manage any associated challenges.
12. Critically understand and apply the principles of partnership, participation, and power sharing within the social work context.
13. Be able to evaluate the effect of their own characteristics, values, and practice on interactions with service users and be able to critically reflect on this to improve practice.
14. Critically understand the concepts and frameworks that underpin a range of individual counselling theory and skills; theory and practice of working with children and families; community work theory and practice and group work theory and practice.
22. Demonstrate skills in evidence-informed practice, including translation of theory, concepts, and methods to professional practice.
The module will focus on key social work methods of intervention, viewded through an anti-oppressive practice lens. These include:
Group Work
Solution focused approach
Task-centred approach
Crisis intervention
Community work
| Student Effort Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Lectures | 22 |
| Small Group | 8 |
| Autonomous Student Learning | 70 |
| Total | 100 |
Not applicable to this module.
| Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assignment: This is an assignment focused on reflective practice and involving a reflection on the student's experience of the initial stages of the programme | Unspecified | n/a | Alternative non-linear conversion grade scale 50% | No | 30 |
| Presentation: Students will be allocated to groups and will deliver a group presentation to a subsection of the class. The presentations will focus on the application of methods to a case example. | Unspecified | n/a | Alternative non-linear conversion grade scale 50% | No | 70 |
| Remediation Type | Remediation Timing |
|---|---|
| In-Module Resit | Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
Students will receive timely written feedback on the assignment and on the presentation.
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Professor Jim Campbell | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
| Assoc Professor Sarah Donnelly | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
| Assoc Professor Marie Keenan | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
| Dr Mary Kennedy | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
| Assoc Professor Hilda Loughran | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
| Dr Alan Maddock | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
| Dr Joseph Mooney | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
| Ms Gráinne Murtagh | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
| Assoc Professor Muireann Ní Raghallaigh | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
| Dr Elaine Wilson | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
| Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 | Mon 09:00 - 10:50 |
| Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 | Mon 14:00 - 15:50 |
| Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 9 | Mon 14:00 - 15:50 |
| Lecture | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 12 | Mon 16:00 - 16:50 |
| Tutorial | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 | Tues 14:00 - 15:50 |
| Tutorial | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 9 | Tues 14:00 - 15:50 |
| Tutorial | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 12 | Tues 16:00 - 16:50 |