| CODE | SWP3531 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Current Trends in Community Care | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Social Policy and Social Work | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This unit aims to enable social workers, social policy administrators and mental health nurses to obtain the basic understanding, methods and skills they need to give best service to clients through the development and practice of community care, focusing on the Maltese environment, the practice of case management, the service of elderly and persons with disability, but with a special attention to the service of persons with mental health problems. Learning Outcomes: Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of this study-unit, the student will be able to: • understand and appreciate trends and developments in community abroad and at home in the light of the needs, systems, policies and contexts that they respond to; • appreciate the humane values behind good community care and ways in which these deeply underpin and guide practice; • form a valid general opinion of how what can learned can be helpfully applied, adapted or avoided in Malta. Skills: By the end of this study-unit, the student will be able to: • function better as practitioners, developers and organisers of community care; • know how to adapt the service, its resources, its practice and models to particular needs and client groups. Reading List: It is expected that each students makes frequent back up study of the book marked A, and another marked B. Other books are recommended, according to interest. A. Means R, Richard S & Smith R 2008. Community Care. Policy and Practice .4th Edition.(previous edition also acceptable). Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan B: Moxley D P (1989). The Practice of Case Management. London: Sage. (Simple and clear but does not deal with the clinical role, seeing the case manager as mostly a broker). B : Onyett S (1992, 1998). Case Management in Mental Health. London: Chapman & Hall. Additional readings (more readings will be recommended) Lewis J & Glennerster H (1996). Implementing the New Community Care. Buckingham: Open University Press. Bornat J, Pereira C, Pilgrim D & Williams F (1997; 1993 edition in Library). Community Care: A Reader. London: Macmillan/Open University. Sharkey P. 2007. The essentials of community care. 2nd edition. Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan. McDonald A. 1999. 2006. Understanding community care. A guide for social workers. Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Maria Camilleri David Cassar Charlene Debattista Patrick Harvey Charles Pace (Co-ord.) Chantelle Saliba Stephen Christopher Vella |
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