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Campus: Kensington Campus
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Career: Undergraduate
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Units of Credit: 24
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Contact Hours per Week: 35
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Enrolment Requirements:
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Prerequisite: SOCW1001, SOCW3001, SOCW4002, SOCW4003
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Excluded: SOCW4001
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Description
Building on their first practicum experience, students are placed in a different social welfare agency to develop additional competencies and further enhance those already mastered at a basic level. By the end of this practicum students need to demonstrate satisfactory performance on the full range of required practice competencies in addition to formal academic assessment. Students are again consulted in decisions about practicum allocations. The practicum is undertaken as a full-time block period, beginning in late-July and extending throughout Session 2.
Learning Outcomes
Students are expected to:
- Undertake a variety of social work tasks in health/ welfare/ community service organisations
- Understand and respond to the needs and behaviour of people in the context of social work knowledge, skills, and values
- Demonstrate an understanding of how the organisation works
- Display an understanding of the position and role of the organisation in the overall pattern of welfare provision
- Develop their awareness of general policy issues relevant to the context of the organisation and student's own practice
- Develop a clear understanding of the scope of social work and its relationship to other occupations
- Develop professional relationships with organisation staff
- Develop skills and systematic use of knowledge in the areas of assessment, goal setting, and intervention
- Take responsibility and initiative in their learning
- Realistically appraise one's own practice and learning and recognise own strengths, limitations, and individual practice style
- Be aware of, and demonstrate differences between friendships and professional/ working relationships
- Demonstrate an awareness of the impact of one's values, experiences, and personality on others
- Achieve autonomy and independence in practice
- Establish co-operative and open learning and working relationships within and external to the organisation
- Selectively use theory/ knowledge in analysing situations and deciding action strategies
- Display confidence and competence in a variety of practicum tasks and reflect the same through practice behaviour and performance.
Assessment
This course will be assessed as either satisfactory/unsatisfactory. For a satisfactory grade to be awarded various criteria must be met. For more details of assessment tasks, please refer to the course outline which is available from the School office.
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