| CODE | SWP3711 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Advanced Helping Skills for Social Work Practice | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Social Policy and Social Work | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit offers training in key advanced skills in social work practice. The module builds on the basic skills covered in previous study-units. It focuses on developing skills in creating new perspectives, challenging stuck or self-defeating ideas, dealing with service-user reluctance and resistance, using immediacy and dealing with countertransference, breaking bad news and dealing with appropriate endings amongst others. The session format will be group-based therefore offering students the opportunity to practice and receive feedback on each skill that is presented. Moreover, the training is supplemented with additional practice through role-play. Study-unit Aims: a) To provide training in advanced helping skills required for social work practice; b) To enable students to practice advanced helping skills; c) To help students develop an ability to critique themselves in the appropriate use of helping skills; d) To help students become more aware of themselves as potential social workers. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: a. Identify the importance of establishing and developing a positive helping relationship; b. Demonstrate an understanding of the use of skills that they adopt and/or should adopt; c. Explain the rationale for the use of the various skills that they are exposed to in this study-unit; d. Recognize the importance of choosing the appropriate skill to be used in different circumstances; e. Develop an understanding on the appropriate use of self in social work practice; f. Explain the concept of 'countertransference' and identify potential personal triggers in relation to countertransference and parallel processes; g. Develop a deeper understanding of themselves as potential social workers. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: a. The student is expected to show at least a basic acquisition of the skills that were practised during the study-unit; b. The student must demonstrate the ability to: i. Describe his/her role and begin a social work interview (including choosing and using the appropriate opening line, describing and explaining confidentiality and limits to confidentiality); ii. Establish rapport and communicate a sustaining presence (including conveying warmth, respect, a nonjudgmental attitude, unconditional positive regard, genuineness); iii. Demonstrate that they can convey basic understanding while using the skills of empathy, attending, listening; iv. Demonstrate that they are able to explore and elaborate using skills such as questioning, clarification, underlining and reflecting; v. Demonstrate that they are able to use advanced skills such as confrontation, advanced empathy, CBT techniques and so on; vi. Demonstrate an ability to be reflexive and critique themselves. c. The student must demonstrate an ability to critique themselves in the use of basic and advanced skills. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Main Texts Egan, G. (2013) The Skilled Helper: A Problem-Management and Opportunity-Development Approach to Helping. Brooks/Cole: USA. Kadushin, A., & Kadushin, G. (2013). The social work interview. Fifth Edition. New York: Columbia University Press. (4th Edition (1997). Lister, P. G. (2012) Integration social work theory and practice: A practical skills guide. London: Routledge. Murphy, B. C., & Dillon, C. (2015). Interviewing in action in a multicultural world. Fifth Edition. London: Brooks/Cole. Supplementary Reading: Beck, J. S. (2011). Cognitive behavior therapy: Basics and beyond (2nd ed.). New York, NY, US: Guilford Press. Compton, B., Galaway, B. and Cournoyer, B.R. (2005) Social Work Processes. (7th edn.) California:Brooks/Cole. Corey, G. (2008). Theory and practice of counseling and psychotherapy. International Edition. CA: Brooks/Cole. Corey, M. C., & Corey, G. (2010). Becoming a helper. International Edition. New York: Brooks/Cole. Corsini, R. J., & Wedding, D. (2010). Current psychotherapies. Illinois: F. E. Peacock Publishers. Coulshed, V. and Orme, J. (2012). Social work practice. London: Macmillan Press. Gelso, C. J., & Hayes, J. A. (2007). Countertransference and the therapist's inner experience. Routledge: New York. Hackey, H. L., & Cormier, L. S., (2012). The professional counselor: A process guide to helping. Massachusetts: Allyn & Bacon. Hepworth, D. H., Rooney, R. H., Rooney, G. D., Strom-Gottfried, K. & Larsen, J. A. (2010). Direct Social Work Practice: Theory and Skills. Brooks/Cole: Belmont. Hohman, M. (2010). Motivational Interviewing in Social Work Practice. The Guliford Press: New York. Katz, R. S. & Johnson, T. A. (2006). When Professionals Weep: Emotional and countertransference responses in palliative and end-of-life care. Routledge: New York. Mantell, A. (2013). Skills for social work practice. London: Sage. Mearns, D. (1997). Person-centred counselling training. London: Sage. Miller, L. (2006). Counselling skills for social work. London: Sage. Palgrave Macmillan. Payne, M. (2011). Humanistic social work: Core principles in practice. Basingstoke. Riggall, S. (2012). Using Counselling Skills in Social Work. Sage Publication Ltd: London. Seden, J. (2005). Counselling skills in social work practice. Buckingham: Open University Press. Shulman, L. (2009). The skills of helping individuals, families, groups, and communities. Sixth Edition. Illinois: F. E. Peacock Publishers. Stuart Matthews, Anna Harvey & Pamela Trevithick (2003) Surviving the swamp: Using cognitive behavioural therapy in a social work setting, Journal of Social Work Practice, 17:2, 177-185, DOI: 10.1080/026505302000145680 Taylor, B. (2011). Working with Aggression and Resistance in Social Work. Learning Matters Ltd: Glasgow. Trevithick, P. (2012). Social work skills: A practice handbook. Buckingham: Open University Press. Wing Sue, D., Rasheed, M. N., Matthews Rasheed, J. & Jackson, K. F. (2016). Multicultural social work practice: A competency-based approach to diversity and social justice. Second Revised Edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons. |
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| RULES/CONDITIONS | Before TAKING THIS UNIT YOU MUST PASS SWP3511 | ||||||||
| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-Requisite Study-unit: SWP2711 | ||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Independent Study and Workshop | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Mark Pellicano Claudia Psaila (Co-ord.) |
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