Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Nursing and Advanced Practice
Learning Methods
Lecture
Module Offerings
7201SWMAP-SEP-CTY
Aims
This module will enable students to examine, contextualise and critique contemporary social work practice with adults.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically explore the evidence base for social work practice with adults.
2.
Synthesise social policy and legislative developments in social work with adults.
3.
Demonstrate a critical understanding of the duties and powers of social workers working with adults and the range of interventions required to promote wellbeing, provide support and prevent harm, neglect and abuse.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Safeguarding Adults with care and support needs.
Becoming a user of adult services.
Assessing Capacity, Risk and Choice.
Locating disability: social or medical?
Working with neglect and self-neglect.
Contemporary issues in mental health.
Key themes in mental health policy and law.
Service Users and Co-Production.
Mental Health Social Work.
Social Determinants of Mental Health.
Safeguarding in Mental Health Services.
Medical Social Work, aging and the end of life.
Working with people who have learning disabilities.
Strengths based approaches to working with older people with dementia living in care settings
Working with carers and families.
Working with complex risk in Mental Health Services.
Forensic mental health social work.
Parents with mental health issues.
Mental health needs of asylum seekers and refugees.
Module Overview:
This module will enable you to examine, contextualise and critique contemporary social work practice with adults.
This module will enable you to examine, contextualise and critique contemporary social work practice with adults.
Additional Information:The students will have the opportunity to relate academic teaching to their first year placement and will have the opportunity to reflect on a range of theories, values and ethics in relation to social work practice.
Students will also be directed to a number of other sources including core journals such as the British Journal of Social Work, Journal of Social Work, Journal of Social Policy, Disability and Society, International Journal of disability, Ageing and Society, Journal of ageing studies, Ethics and Social Welfare.
The module Learning Outcomes (LO) aim cover the following areas of Social Work England Professional Standards:
LO 1 Critically explore the evidence base for social work practice with adults.
4.4 Demonstrate good subject knowledge on key aspects of social work practice and develop knowledge of current issues in society and social policies impacting on social work.
4.8 Reflect on my own values and challenge the impact they have on my practice.
LO 2 Synthesise social policy and legislative developments in social work with adults.
1.1 Value each person as an individual, recognising their strengths and abilities.
1.2 Respect and promote the human rights, views, wishes and feelings of the people I work with, balancing rights and risks and enabling access to advice, advocacy, support and services.
3.3 Apply my knowledge and skills to address the social care needs of individuals and their families commonly arising from physical and mental ill health, disability, substance misuse, abuse or neglect, to enhance quality of life and wellbeing.
3.4 Recognise the risk indicators of different forms of abuse and neglect and their impact on people, their families and their support networks.
3.5 Hold different explanations in mind and use evidence to inform my decisions.
3.6 Draw on the knowledge and skills of workers from my own and other professions and work in collaboration, particularly in integrated teams, holding onto and promoting my social work identity.
3.13 Provide, or support people to access advice and services tailored to meet their needs, based on evidence, negotiating and challenging other professionals and organisations, as required.
3.14 Assess the influence of cultural and social factors over people and the effect of loss, change and uncertainty in the development of resilience.
3.15 Recognise and respond to behaviour that may indicate resistance to change, ambivalent or selective cooperation with services, and recognise when there is a need for immediate action.
3.7
LO 3 Demonstrate a critical understanding of the duties and powers of social workers working with adults and the range of interventions required to promote wellbeing, provide support and prevent harm, neglect and abuse.
1.3 Work in partnership with people to promote their wellbeing and achieve best outcomes, recognising them as experts in their own lives.
1.4 Value the importance of family and community systems and work in partnership with people to identify and harness the assets of those systems.
1.5 Recognise differences across diverse communities and challenge the impact of disadvantage and discrimination on people and their families and communities.
1.7 Recognise and use responsibly, the power and authority I have when working with people, ensuring that my interventions are always necessary, the least intrusive, proportionate, and in people’s best interests.
2.1 Be open, honest, reliable and fair.
2.2 Respect and maintain people’s dignity and privacy.
2.3 Maintain professional relationships with people and ensure that they understand the role of a social worker in their lives.
2.4 Practise in ways that demonstrate empathy, perseverance, authority, professional confidence and capability, working with people to enable full participation in discussions and decision making.
2.5 Actively listen to understand people, using a range of appropriate communication methods to build relationships.
2.6 Treat information about people with sensitivity an