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
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 childprotection, 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.
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Field of Education:	090501 Social Work
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
2008	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