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Use of multimedia resources.
The following values and principles, consistent with professional standards, inform course content.
- Human behaviour is highly complex and the social work profession is involved in a wide range of activities. Generalist social workers must have knowledge of a range of theories and perspectives and be able to apply them to guide and evaluate their actions in different situations.
- Social workers critically evaluate the application of theory to practice and understand how theories, models and perspectives reflect and shape one’s ideas, attitudes and behaviour.
Course content will be informed by current social work research, practice, and scholarship.
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe key attributes of a broad range of social work theories;
- Critically evaluate a range of social work theories (traditional, contemporary and emergent);
- Articulate the relationship between social work theories, practice, and research;
- Identify aspects of a theory that are consistent or inconsistent with one’s own values and professional ethics;
- Apply a selection of theories to a situation and describe how each theory guides practice in that situation.
This course will conform to Douglas College policy regarding the number and weighting of evaluations. Typical means of evaluation would include a combination of any of the following:
- Examinations
- Research papers
- Participation
- Attendance.
Text(s) such as the following, the list to be updated periodically:
Healy, K. (2005). Social work theories in context: Creating frameworks for practice. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
Jennissen, T., & Lundy, C. (2011). One hundred years of social work: A history of the profession in English Canada, 1900–2000. Waterloo, ON: Wilfred Laurier Press.
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