SWB110 Understanding Families and Relationships
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| Unit code: | SWB110 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,024 |
| International unit fee | $4,224 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | SWB110 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Coordinator: | Alyssa Venning | alyssa.venning@qut.edu.au |
Overview
For effective practice, social workers and human services practitioners need a deep, critically informed understanding of the nature and importance of relationships for human well-being, identity and social justice. The immediate social worlds of individuals and families are complex, dynamic and heavily influenced by their socio-political context. Professional practitioners require an appreciation of this aspect, as well as the impact of diversity and difference. Through understanding these complexities social work and human service practitioners can shape their practice to better respond to the needs of individuals, families, groups and communities. This unit provides introductory knowledge for professional practice and is located in first year as a foundation for subsequent critical theory and practice.
NB: Bachelor of Human Services (SW03) or Social Work (SW04) students must enrol in the on-campus, internal version of this unit to meet accreditation requirements.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify aspects of the varied and dynamic character of people's family and social roles and relationships and how these are influenced by their socio-political context
- Critically analyse the role of family and other social relationships and connections in fostering and maintaining human wellbeing and identity within a complex socio-political context
- Apply key concepts and theories regarding the diversity of family life
- Critically analyse the variety of factors that can lead to relational tensions and connect to broader structural issues
- Identify how community and social services can support relationships that foster social justice, wellbeing and human rights
Content
This unit includes content on:
- The socio-political context and its influence on relationships
- Theories and perspectives that help understand families in their social and structural context
- Family diversity, transitions and power relations
- Interpersonal and structural dimensions of Identity, gender and sexuality
- Families, attachment and patterns of interaction
- Social roles, care, connections and networks
- Tensions and conflicts in social relationships and resultant impacts
- Domestic and family violence
- Social work and human service roles in supporting relationships from socially just perspectives, including responding to socio-political and relational tensions
Relates to learning outcomes
Learning outcomes link to:
AASW Education and Accreditation Standards (2020): 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2
AASW Practice Standards (2013): 1.1, 4.2, 6.2
ACWA Core Competencies: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 2.2, 2.6, 3.2, 3.4, 5.5
Learning Approaches
This unit will be taught via a weekly lecture and tutorial. A range of lecture materials including video material, and other resources located on Canvas will be provided. The tutorials will assist you to ground your understanding of key concepts and theories through case scenarios, discussions, role plays, and audio-visual materials.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will gain self and academic feedback on all of the assessment pieces in lectures and tutorials. You will also receive written feedback from the teaching staff on your second assessment, which will prepare you for your final assessment.
Assessment
Overview
Each assessment item is designed to assess your application of the knowledge and skills stated in the unit learning outcomes. The unit consists of three assessment items, the first being a quiz/test applying your knowledge of key concepts in the unit. The second assessment is a policy and practice report designed to respond to an area of family practice. The final piece of assessment is an essay that evaluates the scoio-cultural context of family and experiences of social oppression impacting upon Australian families. The assessments build upon your learning over the semester to enable you to meet the unit aims and learning outcomes.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quiz
In this task you will complete two quizzes (Wks 3 and 5) demonstrating your knowledge of the introductory key concepts relevant to understanding families and relationships.
The quiz has two components and is based on selected course readings. Twenty questions worth 0.5 marks will be provided to students in each quiz. Questions will be multiple choice or true/false questions.
Assessment: Policy and Practice Response
Assume the role of a social worker or human service worker and construct a practice and policy review of an area of family practice in the form of a professional report. Areas of family practice will be provided during the lectures and detailed instructions will be available on LMS Canvas. This short report will be formatted into a report style document for submission to a hypothetical agency for an upcoming staff meeting.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Analytic Essay
The assignment requires students to display understanding and analysis of a form of social oppression impacting upon Australian families. You will be asked to explore potential practice and policy responses to assist families in need.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Dempsey, D. & Lindsay, J. (2014). Families, relationships and intimate life (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Other
Resource materials will be placed on Canvas and a comprehensive reading list will be provided.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no unusual risk management issues associated with this unit. However, given the focus on subject matter with which all students have had experience, students should be aware of any personal discomfort they experience and discuss this with unit staff or appropriate QUT sources of support. Students are encouraged to refer any concerns to the Unit Coordinator.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.SW04 Bachelor of Social Work
- Critique and apply coherent theoretical, practical and contextually relevant social work knowledge, skills and values, and cultivate a commitment toward meeting diverse clients and community needs. [Knowledge, Practice, Values and Disposition]
Relates to: Quiz, Analytic Essay - Access, evaluate, and utilise relevant social work information that informs and assists in intra- and inter-professional communication in a range of contexts, through effective oral, written and digital interactions. [Practice, Knowledge]
Relates to: Policy and Practice Response, Analytic Essay - Critically examine tenets of diversity and diverse perspectives in social work, and advocate for a socially just society and the promotion of human dignity that reflect different social, political, cultural and historical circumstances, on the beliefs, values and aspirations of various groups, including Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations. [Values and Disposition, Knowledge, Practice]
Relates to: Policy and Practice Response, Analytic Essay
SW05 Bachelor of Social Work (Honours)
- Critically evaluate theoretical, practical and contextually relevant social work knowledge, skills and values and, as a change facilitator, meet diverse client and community needs that promote social justice
Relates to: Quiz, Policy and Practice Response, Analytic Essay - Develop advanced knowledge, skills and values, to inform culturally safe communication and effective intra- and inter-professional collaboration and with a wide range of audiences and contexts, including accessing, evaluating and utlising digital health information.
Relates to: Policy and Practice Response - Access, evaluate and utilise social work information to advocate for a socially just society and the promotion of human dignity and worth that reflect different social, political, cultural and historical circumstances, on the beliefs, values and aspirations of various groups, including Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations
Relates to: Policy and Practice Response, Analytic Essay
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | SWB110 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
Overview
For effective practice, social workers and human services practitioners need a deep, critically informed understanding of the nature and importance of relationships for human well-being, identity and social justice. The immediate social worlds of individuals and families are complex, dynamic and heavily influenced by their socio-political context. Professional practitioners require an appreciation of this aspect, as well as the impact of diversity and difference. Through understanding these complexities social work and human service practitioners can shape their practice to better respond to the needs of individuals, families, groups and communities. This unit provides introductory knowledge for professional practice and is located in first year as a foundation for subsequent critical theory and practice.
NB: Bachelor of Human Services (SW03) or Social Work (SW04) students must enrol in the on-campus, internal version of this unit to meet accreditation requirements.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Identify aspects of the varied and dynamic character of people's family and social roles and relationships and how these are influenced by their socio-political context
- Critically analyse the role of family and other social relationships and connections in fostering and maintaining human wellbeing and identity within a complex socio-political context
- Apply key concepts and theories regarding the diversity of family life
- Critically analyse the variety of factors that can lead to relational tensions and connect to broader structural issues
- Identify how community and social services can support relationships that foster social justice, wellbeing and human rights
Content
This unit includes content on:
- The socio-political context and its influence on relationships
- Theories and perspectives that help understand families in their social and structural context
- Family diversity, transitions and power relations
- Interpersonal and structural dimensions of Identity, gender and sexuality
- Families, attachment and patterns of interaction
- Social roles, care, connections and networks
- Tensions and conflicts in social relationships and resultant impacts
- Domestic and family violence
- Social work and human service roles in supporting relationships from socially just perspectives, including responding to socio-political and relational tensions
Relates to learning outcomes
Learning outcomes link to:
AASW Education and Accreditation Standards (2020): 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.3, 4.4, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, 7.2
AASW Practice Standards (2013): 1.1, 4.2, 6.2
ACWA Core Competencies: 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 2.2, 2.6, 3.2, 3.4, 5.5
Learning Approaches
This unit will be taught via a weekly lecture and tutorial. A range of lecture materials including video material, and other resources located on Canvas will be provided. The tutorials will assist you to ground your understanding of key concepts and theories through case scenarios, discussions, role plays, and audio-visual materials.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will gain self and academic feedback on all of the assessment pieces in lectures and tutorials. You will also receive written feedback from the teaching staff on your second assessment, which will prepare you for your final assessment.
Assessment
Overview
Each assessment item is designed to assess your application of the knowledge and skills stated in the unit learning outcomes. The unit consists of three assessment items, the first being a quiz/test applying your knowledge of key concepts in the unit. The second assessment is a policy and practice report designed to respond to an area of family practice. The final piece of assessment is an essay that evaluates the scoio-cultural context of family and experiences of social oppression impacting upon Australian families. The assessments build upon your learning over the semester to enable you to meet the unit aims and learning outcomes.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Quiz
In this task you will complete two quizzes (Wks 3 and 5) demonstrating your knowledge of the introductory key concepts relevant to understanding families and relationships.
The quiz has two components and is based on selected course readings. Twenty questions worth 0.5 marks will be provided to students in each quiz. Questions will be multiple choice or true/false questions.
Assessment: Policy and Practice Response
Assume the role of a social worker or human service worker and construct a practice and policy review of an area of family practice in the form of a professional report. Areas of family practice will be provided during the lectures and detailed instructions will be available on LMS Canvas. This short report will be formatted into a report style document for submission to a hypothetical agency for an upcoming staff meeting.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Assessment: Analytic Essay
The assignment requires students to display understanding and analysis of a form of social oppression impacting upon Australian families. You will be asked to explore potential practice and policy responses to assist families in need.
This assignment is eligible for the 48-hour late submission period and assignment extensions.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Dempsey, D. & Lindsay, J. (2014). Families, relationships and intimate life (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
Other
Resource materials will be placed on Canvas and a comprehensive reading list will be provided.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no unusual risk management issues associated with this unit. However, given the focus on subject matter with which all students have had experience, students should be aware of any personal discomfort they experience and discuss this with unit staff or appropriate QUT sources of support. Students are encouraged to refer any concerns to the Unit Coordinator.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.SW04 Bachelor of Social Work
- Critique and apply coherent theoretical, practical and contextually relevant social work knowledge, skills and values, and cultivate a commitment toward meeting diverse clients and community needs. [Knowledge, Practice, Values and Disposition]
Relates to: Quiz, Analytic Essay - Access, evaluate, and utilise relevant social work information that informs and assists in intra- and inter-professional communication in a range of contexts, through effective oral, written and digital interactions. [Practice, Knowledge]
Relates to: Policy and Practice Response, Analytic Essay - Critically examine tenets of diversity and diverse perspectives in social work, and advocate for a socially just society and the promotion of human dignity that reflect different social, political, cultural and historical circumstances, on the beliefs, values and aspirations of various groups, including Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations. [Values and Disposition, Knowledge, Practice]
Relates to: Policy and Practice Response, Analytic Essay
SW05 Bachelor of Social Work (Honours)
- Critically evaluate theoretical, practical and contextually relevant social work knowledge, skills and values and, as a change facilitator, meet diverse client and community needs that promote social justice
Relates to: Quiz, Policy and Practice Response, Analytic Essay - Develop advanced knowledge, skills and values, to inform culturally safe communication and effective intra- and inter-professional collaboration and with a wide range of audiences and contexts, including accessing, evaluating and utlising digital health information.
Relates to: Policy and Practice Response - Access, evaluate and utilise social work information to advocate for a socially just society and the promotion of human dignity and worth that reflect different social, political, cultural and historical circumstances, on the beliefs, values and aspirations of various groups, including Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations
Relates to: Policy and Practice Response, Analytic Essay