| CODE | SWP3540 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Community Care for Social Workers | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 6 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Social Policy and Social Work | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This unit uses lectures and other interactive class exercises such as discussions and role plays to give students an appreciation of the perspectives and methods useful for social workers to operate professionally in community-based services of health and social care created to support people who are dependent on help in order to experience a good quality of life while mostly still living in their homes and in their natural environment. The unit will focus not only on face-to-face work with users, carers and other supporting networks, but also on important perspectives in planning, maintaining and improving such services. Study-Unit Aims: This unit aims to familiarize students of social work with the concepts and practices to be applied in the exercise of social work, case management and general participation within the professional, interdisciplinary and especially long-term support of people who need such help to live an optimal life in the community. Learning Outcomes: Knowledge & Understanding By the end of this study-unit, the student will be able to: • Demonstrate awareness and understanding of the needs of dependent people living at home, particularly older adults, persons with disability and persons with mental health problems; • Recognise the main ways in which these needs can be met; • Possess and know how to apply knowledge of how social workers can operate in engagement, assessment, intervention, evaluation and improvement in their work of dependent people, especially ones living at home; • Demonstrate awareness and understanding of the philosophies and systems that underpin the provision of community care, such as the basic values of holism, partnership with the service user, interdisciplinary intervention and needs-led service; • Show familiarity with developments in the provision of community care, especially since the 1960s, mainly in Malta and the UK, but also more internationally, in ways that give insight into good and not-so-good practice that could be applied at the macro-, meso- and micro-levels. Skills: By the end of this study-unit, the student will be able to: Practice, social work and case management under supervision, exercising engagement, assessment, evaluation and service improvement with the main users of community care in an ethical and professional manner and in ways that are sensitively appropriate to individual and group needs and to the prevailing, especially local context. Main Text/s and supplementary readings: Knapp M, et al. 2018. Care in the Community: Challenge and Demonstration (Routledge) McDonald A. 2006. Understanding community care. A guide for social workers. Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan. Means R, Richard S & Smith R 2008. Community Care. Policy and Practice .4th Edition. (previous edition also acceptable). Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan. Pace C, Vella S & Dziegielewski S F 2016. Long-term care of older adults in Malta: Influencing factors and their social impacts amid the international financial crisis. In Journal of Social Service Research 2016, VOL. 42, NO. 2 . In Duesdad B & Pace C (guest editors). Special Issue on, ‘Facing the challenges to the development of long-term care for older people in Europe’, pp. 263-279. Sharkey P. 2007. The essentials of community care. 2nd edition. Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan. Summers N 2011. Fundamentals of Case Management Practice: Skills for the Human Services. Wong, Daniel Fu Keung 2006. Clinical Case Management for People with Mental Illness: A Biopsychosocial Vulnerability-stress Model (Haworth Social Work in Health Care) |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Tutorial | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Miriam Agius Charles Pace (Co-ord.) |
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