Social Work in Community

Course: Social Work

Structural unit: Faculty of Psychology

Title
Social Work in Community
Code
ОК.17
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
5 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
LO1; LO3; LO4; LO8; LO10; LO12; LO15; LO18; LO19. The full list of Programme learning outcomes is given in the section «Programme Profile»
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
To know: - methods and technologies of social work; - the basis of regulation and legal support in the field of social work; - socio-psychological features of client groups in social work; - models of social policy. To be able: - to analyze statistical information; - to communicate with representatives of different social groups; - to conduct group classes; - to assess the situation adequately, to plan and to be flexible in case of obstacles in the way of achieving the goal.
Course content
The discipline is aimed to form ideas about the methods of social work in the community, as well as gaining skills in developing social projects at the local level. While studing the basic theoretical and methodological approaches to the organization of social work in the community students prepare one-man projects that analyze the social status and level of development of the community to which they belong. Particular attention is paid to the peculiarities of system of local self-government in Ukraine and the process of decentralization. The distribution of local power affects on the process of organizing and providing social services, creating a system of integrated social services that provide social work.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
#Spilno do novykh posluh. Kerivnytstvo iz vprovadzhennia sotsialnykh posluh dlia simei z ditmy v hromadakh. Chastyna 2. Vedennia vypadku ta mizhvidomcha vzaiemodiia. Posibnyk / Dashchakivska O.Iu., Stelmakh S.S., Maksymenko K.M. Kyiv, 2021. 72 s. [in Ukrainian] Munday B. Integrated social services in Europe. Council of Europe Publishing. 2007. 97 p. Harnets O., Honcharuk O., Dmytruk N., Tkachuk A. Detsentralizatsiia v Ukraini: sotsiolohichnyi pohliad. Kyiv : Sofiia-A. 2013. 160 s. [in Ukrainian] Posibnyk iz vyznachennia potreb naselennia obiednanoi terytorialnoi hromady u sotsialnykh posluhakh: Praktychni rekomendatsii. Kyiv, 2019. 72 s. [in Ukrainian] Slozanska H. I. Sotsialna robota v terytorialnii hromadi: teorii, modeli ta metody: monohrafiia / red. V. A. Polishchuk. Ternopil: TNPU imeni V. Hnatiuka, 2018. 382 s. [in Ukrainian] Chuiko O.V., Shkuro V. P. Ekoloho oriientovane sotsialne pidpryiemnytstvo v hromadi. Kyiv, 2020. 124 s. [in Ukrainian]
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, individual work, educational game
Assessment methods and criteria
Assessment during the semester: writing critical essays and written works - up to 7 points, participation in group discussion - up to 5 points, preparation of research work on the analysis of social status of the community - up to 20 points, project development of social services in the community - up to 20 points. In total for the semester the student can get a maximum of 60 points, but not less than 36 points for admission to the exam. The form of final control is an exam. The maximum score is 40 points, the minimum is 24 points. Based on the results of the work during the semester, the student receives a final grade on a 100-point system, which is calculated as the sum of grades for the semester and grades for the exam: 0-59 - unsatisfactory 60-74 - satisfactory 75-89 - good 90-100 - excellent
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Nadiia Vitaliivna Butenko
Department of Social Work
Faculty of Psychology

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Social Work
Faculty of Psychology