Faculty of Education and Social Work
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SOCWORK 715 - Supervised Field Practice and Professional Development 2
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Course description
30 points
An advanced practicum course which includes a critical interrogation of the relationships between critical reflection, professional supervision and ethics and their application to professional social work practice. This course includes a minimum of 65 days supervised agency-based practical experience, building on the knowledge and skills gained in the first practicum and subsequent coursework.
Course director
Cherie Appleton
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Learning outcomes
Demonstrates appropriate use of self in a professional social work setting.- Personal attributes, particularly values and attitudes, are consistently explored in supervision.
- Independent workload management skills and record keeping are demonstrated and evaluated at an appropriate level.
- Use of consultation and supervision is effectively demonstrated and evaluated.
- Demonstrates competency in interviewing techniques both with individuals and groups.
- Ability to ask questions and respond appropriately is demonstrated.
- Ability to identify and work confidently with a range of feelings expressed by client
- group is demonstrated.
- Problem identification and intervention is articulated and demonstrated consistently.
- Ability to interview appropriately in different cultural settings is demonstrated consistently.
- Knowledge of ANZASW Bi-cultural Code of Ethics is clearly demonstrated in supervised decision making.
- Develops the capacity to initiate and articulate own learning in a social work practice situation.
- Learning goals for placement are clearly identified.
- Own practice is analysed with reference to a range of theory.
- Supervision, and its several functions are used for reflective practice and on-going learning.
- Demonstrates knowledge of organisational structure of the social service agency in which the student is placed.
- Legal and policy issues pertaining to student’s agency are understood and articulated.
- Ability to work collaboratively with other helping services in the community is demonstrated at an appropriate level.
- The demands, constraints and opportunities of social work practice in the community in which the student is placed are understood and articulated.
- The concerns, constraints and opportunities of the client community are clearly identified and linked to social and political perspectives.
Course Coordinators
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Delivery modes
Block Intensive (intensive on campus days)
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Currently scheduled classes
2018 Epsom (Semester 2): Block sessions on Wednesday 18 August and Tuesday 6 November from 9am to 5pm and practicum from 6 August to 2 November
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Take this course
This course can be taken as a taught course in the following programmes:
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School
Counselling, Human Services, and Social Work
