SWK404 Advanced Groupwork (8)

This subject aims to develop professional, advanced Groupwork skills and knowledge. Students will be taught essential groupwork theory and develop skills through training exercises. Students will learn advanced level groupwork conceptualization and practice those conceptualizations with targeted client groups. The emphasis will be on the integration of groupwork conceptualization with practice.

No offerings have been identified for this subject in 2019.

Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.

Subject Information

Grading System

HD/FL

Duration

One session

School

School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject, students should:
  • Have an understanding of the fundamentals of groupwork;
  • Have an understanding of the nature, ethics and efficacy of advanced Groupwork;
  • Have a cognitive understanding of the nature of the developmental stages of groupwork;
  • Have an understanding of the conceptualization of groupwork and an appreciation of the student's own theoretical orientation and leadership approaches;
  • Have an exposure to constraints and attributes of working with specific groups;
  • Have experiential knowledge of groupwork;

Syllabus

This subject will cover the following topics:

Unit 1: Definitions of key terms encountered in Groupwork literature; a description of the developmental stages through which groups pass. (2 weeks) Unit 2: Ethics and Professional Issues in Groupwork. Unit 3: Theoretical Approaches in Counselling Groups - Psychoanalytic, Adlerian, Psychodrama, Existential, RET, Transactional Analysis. Unit 4: Fundamentals of Groups - structure, processes, cohesion, group purposes, group ethos, termination of groups. Unit 5: The effective, purposive group leader - styles and approaches. Unit 6: Commonly occurring problems in groups. Professional Development and Support in groupwork. Unit 7: Evaluation and Groupwork Unit 8: Groups for Children Unit 9: Groups for Adolescents Unit 10: Groups for Adults Unit 11:Groups for the elderly Unit 12:Groups for the disabled Unit 13:Groups for Institutional clients

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The information contained in the CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: May 2019. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.

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