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Practical Training of Professional Skills
Study Course Description
Course Description Statuss:Approved
Course Description Version:5.00
Study Course Accepted:08.11.2021 13:45:13
| Study Course Information | |||||||||
| Course Code: | LUSDK_217 | LQF level: | Level 6 | ||||||
| Credit Points: | 2.00 | ECTS: | 3.00 | ||||||
| Branch of Science: | Sociology | Target Audience: | Social Welfare and Social Work | ||||||
| Study Course Supervisor | |||||||||
| Course Supervisor: | Iveta Dūma | ||||||||
| Study Course Implementer | |||||||||
| Structural Unit: | Department of Welfare and Social Work | ||||||||
| The Head of Structural Unit: | |||||||||
| Contacts: | Riga, 26a Anniņmuižas boulevard, socdk rsu[pnkts]lv, +371 67061575 | ||||||||
| Study Course Planning | |||||||||
| Full-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 4 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 8 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 12 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 24 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 32 | ||||||||
| Part-Time - Semester No.1 | |||||||||
| Lectures (count) | 3 | Lecture Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Lectures | 6 | ||||
| Classes (count) | 7 | Class Length (academic hours) | 2 | Total Contact Hours of Classes | 14 | ||||
| Total Contact Hours | 20 | ||||||||
| Study course description | |||||||||
| Preliminary Knowledge: | Not necessary. | ||||||||
| Objective: | To ensure that students master skills of work with different target groups in social work practice. | ||||||||
| Topic Layout (Full-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Professional skills and abilities of a social worker | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 2 | Tasks of social worker’s job etiquette in the working environment and communication with a client | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Social portrait of social work clients | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Training of professional skills – communication, active listening | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Teamwork in social work – establishing cooperation | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 6 | Training of professional skills – organisational and documenting skills | Classes | 2.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Confidentiality and personal data | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Training of professional skills – setting and maintaining boundaries in social work | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Topic Layout (Part-Time) | |||||||||
| No. | Topic | Type of Implementation | Number | Venue | |||||
| 1 | Professional skills and abilities of a social worker | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 2 | Tasks of social worker’s job etiquette in the working environment and communication with a client | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 3 | Social portrait of social work clients | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 4 | Training of professional skills – communication, active listening | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 5 | Teamwork in social work – establishing cooperation | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||||
| 6 | Training of professional skills – organisational and documenting skills | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 7 | Confidentiality and personal data | Lectures | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| 8 | Training of professional skills – setting and maintaining boundaries in social work | Classes | 1.00 | auditorium | |||||
| Assessment | |||||||||
| Unaided Work: | Studying of literature sources, acquittance with research, role play design development. | ||||||||
| Assessment Criteria: | Attendance – 20%; Work in groups, activities in classes – 40%; Defence – 40%. | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Full-Time): | Defence (Placement) | ||||||||
| Final Examination (Part-Time): | Defence (Placement) | ||||||||
| Learning Outcomes | |||||||||
| Knowledge: | After a successful mastering of the study course the student will be able: • to list and describe the professional skills needed by a social worker; • to outline the role of professional skills in social work; • to recognise different groups of social work clients; • to choose an appropriate communication style in work with different target groups; • to explain the differences in the communication specification in work with different target groups. | ||||||||
| Skills: | After a successful mastering of the study course the student will be able: • to identify the necessary professional skills for a social worker when working with individual client groups; • to use certain professional skills in work with a client. | ||||||||
| Competencies: | After a successful mastering of the study course the student will be able: • to use and increase the mastered professional skills during study placement. | ||||||||
| Bibliography | |||||||||
| No. | Reference | ||||||||
| Required Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Sociālais darbs: izglītība, pētniecība, prakse 2017. [Rakstu krājums]. Sastādītāja L. Vilka. Rīga: Rīgas Stradiņa universitāte, 2017 | ||||||||
| 2 | Pam Field, Cathie Jasper&Lesley Litter “Practice Education in Social Work: Achieving Professional Standarts” St Albans, UK: Crital Publishing; 2016 | ||||||||
| 3 | Evija Apine, Vita Roga “Klienta identitātes transformācija sociālā darba procesā” Rīga: LU Akadēmiskais apgāds; 2011 | ||||||||
| Additional Reading | |||||||||
| 1 | Publikācija: Juris Osis “Pierādījumi, pieredze, intuīcija – efektīvas sociālā darba prakses instrumenti” Sociālais darbs Latvijā 2/2019 | ||||||||
| 2 | Michaela Rogers, Dawn Whitaker, David Edmondson, Donna Peach “Developing Skills for Social Work Practise” Sage Publications; 2020 | ||||||||
