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Placement in Social Work
Study Course Description
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| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | LUSDK_180 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 20.00 | ECTS: | 30.00 | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||||
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| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 0 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 0 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 0 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 10 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 20 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Not applicable | ||||||||
| Objective: | To ensure students skills needed for the application at professional level - in social work and social service systems. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Introduction. Purpose of the field placement and study outcomes; assessment and evaluation criteria. Short introduction of content. Discussion about individual and group tasks. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Get acquanted with practice placement institution, reaching of basic information of placement. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Individual and group reflection | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 4 | Realization of field placement tasks at the institution. Reflection. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Planning of intervention. Reflection. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 6 | Realization of intervention. Reflection. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Outcomes assessment. Individual autcomes identification and practice portfolio content. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Presentation of research report, portfolio. | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Individual activities at field placement setting and practice programme, feedback and self- reflection, portfolio. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Active participation in workshops / reflections meetings - 40% Research report, Portfolio - 60% | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Exam | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | |||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | Will be able to integrate knowledge about social work at municipality, state and NGO settings in work with children and youth; will gain knowledge about intervention process (from planning to realization). | ||||||||
| Skills: | Will be able to plan intervention process in work with children and youth; will be able to evaluate needs of target group; will be able to apply legislation in the work; will be able to apply social work methods and theories in intervention process; will be able to present intervention process for audience. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | Will develop personal and professional competencies: social work ethics and social justice, human rights perspective; values and knowledge, ethics, boundaries; intercultural aspects of work with children and youth, multicultural competence. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Dulmus, C. N., Sowers, K. M. Social Work Fields of Practice : Historical Trends, Professional Issues, and Future Opportunities (1). Wiley, 2012. 434 p. | ||||||||
| 2 | Hendricks, C. O., Finch, J. B., Franks, Cheryl L. Learning to Teach - Teaching to Learn : A Guide for Social Work Field Education, 2nd edition, Council on Social Work Education, 2013. 462 p. | ||||||||
| 3 | Payne, M., Askeland, G. A. Globalization and International Social Work. Ashgate, 2012. 203 p. | ||||||||
| 4 | Shardlow, S. M., Doel, M. Modern Social Work Practice. Ashgate, 2012. 329 p. | ||||||||
