Courses Handbook 2006 - [Archived]

310068 (v.1) SW 243 - Statutory Social Work


Area:

Department of Social Work and Social Policy

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

3.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Lecture:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Workshop:

1 x 1 Hours Weekly

Anti Requisite(s):

10016 (v.5) SW 231 - Statutory Work or any previous version

Co Requisite(s):

306127 (v.1) SW 127 - Practice Methods in Social Work or any previous version
 

Syllabus:

History and discourses of social work practice in statutory settings - legislative and administrative base of policies and practice, tensions in reconciling professional practice and statutory obligations, analysis of contemporary issues focusing on child protection, criminal justice and mental health systems, working with involuntary clients in a range of government and non-government statutory settings, agency procedures such as risk assessments, case conferences, reports, interagency collaboration, ethics in practice including issues of power and authority, self-determination, confidentiality and promotion of reflexivity and emancipatory practice.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

090501 Social Work

Funding Cluster:

05 - Behavioural Science, Social Studies

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2006 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially
Online
Internal
refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully
Online
refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

 
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