Groups of mutual assistance
Course: Social Work
Structural unit: Faculty of Psychology
Title
Groups of mutual assistance
Code
ВБ.2.03
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
4 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5
Learning outcomes
LO 13. To use methods of social diagnostics in the evaluation process of problems, needs, peculiarities and client’s resources. LO 19. To identify strengths and to involve the client’s personal resources, resources of social groups and communities to solve their problems and get out of difficult life circumstances. LO 23. To construct the process and the result of social work within the set tasks, to use quantitative and qualitative indicators, to adjust the work plan in accordance with the results of the assessment.
Form of study
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. Operate the categorical and conceptual apparatus of the disciplines "Social policy in the field of social work", "Age characteristics of client groups in social work", "Social work with migrants and displaced persons", "Theory of social work".
2. Provide educational and psycho-prophylactic assistance in accordance with the problems of clients in the process of group work.
3. The ability to understand the nature of behavior, activities and actions of an personality in difficult life circumstances; technologies and means of influence in group interaction; to apply the acquired knowledge in the practical sphere with different layers of the population.
Course content
The course purpose for students is to learn the basic skills of organizing, participating and holding groups, which are aimed at making participants aware of their own resourcefulness and personal experience for solving current problems in difficult life circumstances. The discipline involves the development of practical skills of communicative professional interaction; self-help; principles of environmental impact on participants, regarding the development of group dynamics.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Horbunova V. V., Karachevskyi A. B., Klymchuk V. O., Netliukh H. S., Romanchuk O. I. Sotsialno-psykholohichna pidtrymka adaptatsii veteraniv ATO: posibnyk dlia veduchykh hrup. Lviv : Instytut psykhichnoho zdorovia Ukrainskoho Katolytskoho Universytetu, 2016. 96 s.
Zaveryko N. V. Hrupy vzaiemodopomohy v systemi sotsialno-pedahohichnoi roboty z naselenniam // Visnyk Zaporizkoho natsionalnoho universytetu: zbirnyk naukovykh prats. Pedahohichni nauky. Zaporizhzhia : Zaporizkyi nats. un-t., 2011. S. 25–129.
Kisarchuk Z. H., Omelchenko Ya. M., Lazos H. P., Lytvynenko L. I., Tsarenko L. H. Psykholohichna dopomoha postrazhdalym vnaslidok kryzovykh travmatychnykh podii: metodychnyi posibnyk / za red. Z. H. Kisarchuk. Kyiv : TOV Vydavnytstvo «Lohos». 207 s.
Miullender O. Samokerovana hrupova robota: diialnist korystuvachiv z metoiu nasnazhennia / per. S. Parkhomenko. Amsterdam, Kyiv : APU, 1996. 176 s.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Practical class, individual work
Assessment methods and criteria
Assessment methods: recitations (participation in discussions and debates, additional remarks), analytical reports, creative independent work, final test.
Form of final control - credit.
Organization of evaluation: Evaluation is carried out during the semester for all types of work. The maximum number of points for work during a semester is 100.
The credit is granted based on the results of the student's work during the semester.
Students who scored totally less than 60 points during the semester, but more than the critical minimum of 40 points shall pass the test. The test is estimated at a maximum of 20 points.
Students who scored during the semester lower points than the critical-calculated minimum - 40 points are not allowed to take the test. The recommended minimum for admission to the test is 40 points.
Rating scale:
0-59 - not credited;
60-100 - credited.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian
Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
Departments
The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline