REFLECTIVE PRACTICE: USE OF SELF AND SELF-CARE

SWP5RPS

2014

Credit points: 15

Subject outline

This capstone subject will integrate and expand students' knowledge & skills in practice in chilled wellbeing and child protection. In this subject students will reflect and build upon their own development in terms of their history, culture, values, attitudes, resources and constraints. They will formulate and operationalise plans to develop their self-management and self-care skills and practices, and their ability to build relationships with each other in ways that anticipate established leadership capabilities.

Faculty: Faculty of Health Sciences

Credit points: 15

Subject Co-ordinator: Robyn Elliott

Available to Study Abroad Students: No

Subject year level: Year Level 5 - Masters

Exchange Students: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: N/A

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: N/A

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Learning resources

Readings

Resource Type	Title	Resource Requirement	Author and Year	Publisher
Readings	Compassion fatigue: coping with secondary traumatic stress disorder in those who treat the traumatised	Recommended	Figley, C 1995	BRUNNER/MAZEL, PA.
Readings	Emotional intelligence, emotion and social work: context, characteristics, complications and contribution	Recommended	Morrison, T 2007	BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK, VOL 37, PP 245-263.
Readings	Reflective practice in contemporary child-care social work: the role of containment	Recommended	Ruch, G 2007	BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK, VOL 37, PP 659-680.

Other Site, 2014, Week 18-25, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: No

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information:

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Robyn Elliott

Class requirements

Block Mode
One 5.0 days block mode per study period and delivered via face-to-face.
"Teaching to be delivered over two 2-day blocks and one 1-day block (5 days total.)"

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	%
one 2,500-word essay		50
one 50-minute group presentation		35
one 800-word self-care plan		15

Other Site, 2014, Week 40-44, Day