HSW702 - Understanding Care and Risk

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 1: Online with significant campus requirements (see in-person attendance requirements)

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Kim Robinson
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

Online independent and collaborative learning activities will support learning across the trimester.

In-person attendance requirements:

All students must attend a compulsory 1 day intensive at the Geelong Waterfront Campus at which core practical learning requirements will be taught.

Click here to view intensive dates and locations.

Content

Students will develop an awareness of how ‘care’ and ‘risk’ are conceptualised within theoretical, legal, social, policy and organisational contexts and their political and ethical consequences for social work practice. Students will appreciate that the idea of ‘the risk society’ reconceptualises more traditional ideas of ‘control’ in professional social work practice, and their consequences for ‘care’, ‘protection’ and social justice and recognise that ‘care’ and ‘risk’ are integrally related, and co-exist in all professional practice contexts.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Describe and analyse the ways in which interaction between the concepts of 'care' and 'risk' impacts current social policy and fields of social work practice.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO2

Describe the concepts and theoretical approaches to 'care' and 'risk' introduced in the unit and explain their implications for policy and practice.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

ULO3

Critically evaluate the pros and cons of 'risk' assessment and 'risk' management policy specifically within the child protection field.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO4

Critically evaluate and propose a solution to a particular policy/practice problem involving the tensions between 'care' and 'risk' in relation to mental health.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO5: Problem solving

ULO5

Develop an ethical approach to understanding 'care' and 'risk' in social work as not mutually exclusive but continually negotiated inter-related concepts.

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO6 Use digital technologies effectively to identify and curate information relevant to issues of 'care' and 'risk' in social work practice and to engage peers in online discussion.

GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy

Assessment

Trimester 1:
Assessment description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1: Essay 1500 words 35%
  • Week 4
Assessment 2: Report 2500 words 55%
  • Week 11
Assessment 3: Online participation Approximately 1000 words 10%
  • Weeks 3, 6, 8, 11

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Hurdle requirement

  • Attendance at a 1 day intensive (practical experience workshop) held during trimester at Waterfront Campus.

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Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: HSW702 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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