By the end of the course students will:
1. Have awareness of their own values and how these impact on ethical decision making and interpersonal interactions with others, as well as a capacity to re-evaluate these values with reference to the requirements of professional practice.

2. Demonstrate a high level of self-awareness and open transparent practice that is responsive to feedback from clients, peers, supervisors and teaching staff

3. Demonstrate effective communication in a range of contexts including presenting information clearly and concisely, providing feedback in a clear, balanced and constructive way, and adapting the means and language of communication to meet the needs of a specific situation.

4. Have a critical understanding of the application of the AASW Code of ethics and knowledge of a range of perspectives and theoretical frameworks that influence ethical decision making in practice

5. Apply knowledge from a range of theoretical frameworks, models and approaches to assessment and intervention with clients, including work with people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and involuntary clients.

6. Demonstrate effective collaboration with peers and others in the contexts of team work and delivery of direct social work services to clients

7. Demonstrate a capacity to search for and analyse relevant literature in relation to ethical social work practice and specific issues related to direct work with clients

* Ethics theory and practice, including ethical decision making models
* Family therapy
* Narrative therapy
* Other practice models, approaches and frameworks used in direct social work practice
* Ethical decision making and practice responses to a diverse range of client presenting issues including, for example, loss/grief and mental health.

SWRK4100A - Social Work Theory and Practice III - Part A

Students who have successfully completed SWRK4100A are not eligible to enrol in SWRK4001.

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Successful completion of first, second and third year Social Work courses, SOCA1010, SOCA1020, PYSC1010, PYSC1020, SPSW3070, PHIL3580, LGAL1001 or equivalent.

Internal Mode

Experience Based Learning
Workshop

Workshop: for 3 hour(s) per Week for Full Term
Workshop: for 3 hour(s) per Week for Full Term