Social support of convicts

Course: Social Work

Structural unit: Faculty of Psychology

Title
Social support of convicts
Code
ВБ.9.02
Module type
Вибіркова 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
5
Learning outcomes
LO 1., LO 2., LO 3., LO 4., LO 5., LO 6., LO 9., LO 11., LO 12., The full list of learning outcomes of the educational program is given in the section "Programme Profile".
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
must know: theoretical principles of social work with risk groups; psychological and socio-pedagogical specifics of certain groups of clients; social and psychological factors of deviant and delinquent behavior; forms of preventive and rehabilitation work with special groups of clients; psychological essence of social conflicts; must be able to: use methods of researching the client's personality; encourage the client to self-change; establish psychological contact with the client; identify current problems of the client; organize social support events; provide various forms of individual help (support); must possess: technologies of crisis intervention, counseling and social support of deviants.
Course content
The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge of the theoretical and practical foundations of working with convicts serving sentences in penitentiary institutions. Social support presupposes the specialist's ability to help to various categories of convicts in individual and group forms of work. During the support, the specialist carries out a range of activities, from psychodiagnostics of the client to the provision of psychosocial and counseling assistance. Support is based on the achievements of penitentiary psychology. This requires the formation of students' system of knowledge on the basic principles of resocialization, rehabilitation and readaptation of convicts.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Aleksandrov D.O. Teoretychni osnovy sotsialnoi vzaiemodii. Kyiv: VPTs «Kyivskyi universytet», 2019. 267 s. [in Ukrainian]. 2. Kuzmenko V.V., Dysa O.V., Shynkarenko I.O. Psykholohiia deviantnoi povedinky: navchalnyi posibnyk. Dnipro: vydavets Bila K.O., 2019. 68 s. [in Ukrainian]. 3. Levenets O.A. Praktykum z psykholohichnoho konsultuvannia: navchalnyi posibnyk. Cherkasy: vydavets Chabanenko Yu.A., 2014. 148 s. [in Ukrainian]. 4. Maksymova N.Iu. Osnovy psykholohii deviantnoi povedinky: pidruchnyk. Kyiv: Kyivskyi universytet, 2008. [in Ukrainian]. 5. Psykholoho-pedahohichna robota z ditmy, skhylnymy do proiavu deviantnoi, delinkventnoi povedinky / O.P. Abukhazhar, N.M. Akimova, V.V. Biletska ta in.; uporiadnyky: V.H. Panok, Yu.A. Lutsenko. Kyiv: Ukrainskyi NMTs praktychnoi psykholohii i sotsialnoi roboty, 2014. [in Ukrainian]. 6. Khrystuk O. L. Psykholohiia deviantnoi povedinky: navchalno-metodychnyi posibnyk. Lviv: LvDUVS, 2014. 192 s. [in Ukrainian].
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lecture, seminar, individual work
Assessment methods and criteria
Verbal answers, abstracts, modular control, exam. The maximum number of points per semester is 60 points. The form of the exam is verbal, in accordance with previously submitted creative tasks and projects. The minimum number of points of admission to the exam is 36 points. The number of points scored per semester is announced in advance. Evaluation scale: 0-59 points - fail, 60-74 points – satisfactory, 75-89 – good, 90-100 – excellent.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Denys Oleksandrovych Александров
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