Social support of families with foster children

Course: Social Work

Structural unit: Faculty of Psychology

Title
Social support of families with foster children
Code
ВБ.6.03
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
7 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
4
Learning outcomes
LO 3. To identify, formulate and solve problems in the field of social work, to integrate theoretical knowledge and practical experience. LO 5. To argue ways to overcome problems and difficult life circumstances theoretically, to choose effective methods to solve them, to predict the consequences. LO 10. To analyze socio-psychological processes in small and large groups. LO 14. By their own to determine the circumstances which are needed social assistance.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
To know: The main forms of family placement of orphans and children deprived of parental care; Features of growing children; Legal basis for preventing the removal of a child from the family. To be able: To work with the main documents of a social work specialist: fill in the needs assessment act, individual client card, social support plan; To diagnose the socio-psychological state and level of development of the child.
Course content
The discipline is aimed at studying the features of social support of families with foster children. Students are introduced to basic forms of family placement: adoption, guardianship, foster care. During their studies, students deepen their knowledge of the peculiarities of growing up and socializing a child who has been removed from the family and is being cared for in a boarding school. In the second half of the course, students study the basic regulations of social support of foster families: fill out personal training cases, develop a program to correct parent-child relationships, learn ways to establish and maintain a trusting relationship between child and social worker.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Borychenko K.V. Sotsialnyi zakhyst simei z ditmy za zakonodavstvom Ukrainy : monohrafiia. Odesa : Feniks, 2015. 302 s. [in Ukrainian]. 2. Brych V. Ya., Mykoliuk S. M., Sotsialnyi zakhyst syrit v Ukraini: monohrafiia. Ternopil: TNEU, 2019. 200 s. [in Ukrainian]. 3. Konsultuvannia v systemi psykhosotsialnoi dopomohy ditiam i simiam, shcho opynylys u skladnykh zhyttievykh obstavynakh vnaslidok viiskovykh dii / avt. kol ; zah. red. V. H. Panok, I. I. Tkachuk. Kyiv : UNMTs praktychnoi psykholohii i sotsialnoi roboty, 2019. 144 s. [in Ukrainian]. 4. Orhanizatsiia sotsialnoi roboty z ditmy ta moloddiu, yaki opynylys u SZhO. Praktychnyi posibnyk dlia spetsialistiv sotsialnoi sfery. // Avt. kol.: S.S. Valko, L.S. Loriashvili, M.S. Loriashvili, A.I. Pavlovskyi, Yu.A. Sarankov, Ya.M. Turiekhanov, Yu.M. Udovenko. Kyiv : KhKh, 2011. 304 s. [in Ukrainian].
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Lectures, seminars, group discussions, independent work
Assessment methods and criteria
Individual and group projects, research work in the field, written works, participation in discussions. Form of final assessment - credit. 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 final task: 0-59 - not credited 60-100 - credited
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