HCS300 Social Work Theory and Practice 3 - Mezzo Level Practice (8)
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This subject uses an issues-based approach to methods of intervention in human services. It develops students' intervention and evaluation skills in working with vulnerable groups in a group work context. It provides foundational understanding of organisational context and of working within and between organisations and in particular in teams and meetings as a form of group process. The subject includes theory of conflict resolution and mediation with a focus on developing relevant skills in this area. |
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+ Subject Availability Modes and Location
| Session 1 | | Internal | Dubbo Campus | | Internal | Port Macquarie | | Internal | Wagga Wagga Campus | | Distance* | Wagga Wagga Campus |
*This subject offering contains a residential school. Please view following information for further details.
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: HCS300
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
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Subject information| Duration | Grading System | School: |
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| One session | HD/FL | School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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| Prerequisite(s) | Incompatible subject(s) |
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| HCS200 | HCS304 |
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Learning OutcomesUpon successful completion of this subject, students should:
- Demonstrate their understanding of group work theory
- Demonstrate and critically apply a range of groupwork skills to specific human services contexts and a range of types of groups
- Demonstrate consistent critical reflection on their own groupwork practice by incorporating new knowledge and skills into practice
- Demonstrate an ability to lead and evaluate a task-focussed group, including reflecting on their own behaviour and use of self in groups
- Demonstrate an ability to solve problems and deal with difficult issues in group process
- Demonstrate an ability to develop and implement an appropriate plan for conflict resolution relevant to the human services context
- Identify the role of the worker as change agent within an organisation, including understanding change management processes and roles
- Demonstrate an understanding of and capacity to articulate the role of organisational partnerships in the current welfare context
- Design, implement and evaluate a multi-dimensional project within an organisational and/or community setting, including resource and constraint identification and budget management
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SyllabusThe subject will cover the following topics:
- Identification of the characteristic features of groups and understanding group work theories.
- Application of groupwork principles and groupwork theory and practice that enables the critiquing of responses of groupwork clients' needs and circumstances.
- Developing, leading, implementing, managing and evaluating task focussed group-work including process issues.
- Identification and articulation of the characteristic features of organisational structures, internal and external relationships and how power impacts on organisational processes.
- Challenging organisational practice: strategies for working and managing organisational change.
- Working collaboratively or in conflict: understanding and improving inter-sectorial relationships with other services and disciplines.
- Working across the mezzo level: understanding project and service management.
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Residential School| This subject contains a compulsory 5 day residential school.
The residential school will involve the students in interactive experiential learning all basic skills in a safe environment. It will provide specific lectures and opportunities for discussion and clarification of key concepts and processes. There will be individual and group activities.
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The information contained in the 2016 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 06 September 2016. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.
