Bio-psycho-social Aspects of Behaviours

Study Course Description

Course Description Statuss:Approved

Course Description Version:2.00

Study Course Accepted:20.08.2021 14:23:19

Study Course Information
Course Code:		LUSDK_029		LQF level:		All Levels
Credit Points:		2.00		ECTS:		3.00
Branch of Science:		Sociology		Target Audience:		Social Welfare and Social Work
Study Course Supervisor
Course Supervisor:		Ilze Trapenciere
Study Course Implementer
Structural Unit:		Department of Welfare and Social Work
The Head of Structural Unit:
Contacts:		Riga, 26a Anninmuizas boulevard, socdkrsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67061575
Study Course Planning
Full-Time - Semester No.1
Lectures (count)		12	Lecture Length (academic hours)		2	Total Contact Hours of Lectures		24
Classes (count)		12	Class Length (academic hours)		2	Total Contact Hours of Classes		24
Total Contact Hours								48
Study course description
Preliminary Knowledge:
Basic knowledge in social work.
Objective:
To deepen knowledge in social work on child' mental health care, analyzing cases and discussion of social assistance and intervention perspectives for. To promote complex and systematic process of providing help, biopsyhosocial risk assessment, prevention and psychosocial rehabilitation in social work.
Topic Layout (Full-Time)
No.	Topic			Type of Implementation		Number	Venue
1	Introduction – the role of social work in children and adolescents' mental health care. Environmental situations that influence children and adolescent behavior. Social psychiatry, multidimensional perspective of human biopsychosocial development and development of psychopathology, prevention of mental health (promotion and maintenance).			Lectures		2.00	auditorium
2	Social care for children and youth with substance and alcohol addiction; common tasks for psychosocial intervention. Residential and community psychosocial services. Application of biopsychosocial empirical findings to social work engagement, assessment, interventions, and evaluation by adopting the evidence based behavioral practice process.			Lectures		2.00	auditorium
				Classes		2.00	auditorium
3	Child and adolescent mental health and social problems. Mental retardation. Disorders of psychological development, behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence. Prevention and treatment options on the individual and social level. Risk assessment, psychosocial interventions, outcome evaluations.			Lectures		2.00	auditorium
				Classes		2.00	auditorium
4	Social work intervention and planning: Interventions in local authority social work, Ensuring safety, effecting change. Attachment theory. Direct work with children and young people.			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
				Classes		2.00	auditorium
5	Expertise in child protection work. Communication and alliance in social work, multidimensional differences between social relationships and the realm of the professional collaboration, professional communication, leadership management in psychiatric and social rehabilitation.			Lectures		2.00	auditorium
				Classes		2.00	auditorium
6	Social work in children's social residential care: institutional and personal assistance for children and youth with mental disorders, providing support and social rehabilitation. Representation of children's rights and protection.			Lectures		2.00	auditorium
				Classes		2.00	auditorium
7	Social work ethical principles and dilemmas in mental health care.			Lectures		1.00	auditorium
				Classes		2.00	auditorium
Assessment
Unaided Work:
Group-work tasks, preparing the case, final essay, discussions.
Assessment Criteria:
Final paper essay in one of the areas covered in the course (20 000 characters of actual text) – 70%. Participation in the thematic discussions on Moodle and presentation of case study – 30%.
Final Examination (Full-Time):		Exam (Written)
Final Examination (Part-Time):
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge:		Students will obtain knowledge about role of social work in children and adolescent mental health care; child and adolescent mental health and social problems; prevention and treatment options; social care for children and youth with substance and alcohol addiction etc.
Skills:		Will be able to analyze the intervention plans for children and youth with addiction problems; to develop new comptence in child protection work; will be able to describe children's social residential care.
Competencies:		Will be able to develop competencies in developing intervention plans for children and youth in mental health care, prevention and treatment option and will obtain knowledge and skill about addictions.
Bibliography
No.	Reference
Required Reading
1	AddictionX: Managing Addiction: A Framework for Successful Treatment
2	Robin Timmons, Leonard W. Hamilton (2009), Drugs, Brains and Behavior; Rutgers University
3	David Belin (ed.) From Pathophysiology to Treatment; InTech 2012. Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/addictions-from-pathophysio…
4	Davidson L.L., Grigorenko E.L., Boivin M.J., Rapa E., Stein (2015) A focus on adolescence to reduce neurological, mental health and substance-use disability. Nature, 2015 Nov 19; 527(7578)
5	Fodor M, Sofi G. (2015) The dangers of drug career in young people. Orv. Hetil, 2015 Nov 15; 156 (46):1843-6
6	Intellectual Disability: Management, Causes and Social Perceptions. Mancini Domenico F., Greco Carlo M. Nova Science Publishers, Inc . May 2012
7	Ainsworth Patricia, Baker Pamela C. (2004), Mental Retardation. University Press of Mississippi
8	Goodman Robert, Scott Stephen (2012), Psychiatry (3rd Edition) John Wiley & Sons.
9	Intellectual disability (mental retardation): Causes, symptoms and Treatments.
Additional Reading
1	Course overview Managing Addiction (EdX)
2	Biosocial Model in DBT: How Symptoms Arise and Are Maintained
3	R. Andrew Chambers, Jane R. Taylor, Marc N. Potenza, (2003), Neurocircuitry of Motivation in Adolescence: A Critical Period of Addiction Vulnerability; Am J Psychiatry 2003; 160:1041–1052