This course will prepare you for direct practice with people in a range of circumstances and organisational settings. The course introduces you to practice skills used in social work, focusing on critical theories, intervention methods and processes applied through a structural and decolonising lens.

You will critique crisis and case management models and practice and receive feedback using strengths-based approaches to engage, plan and work to achieve goals with people. Through using complex case studies, this course will also introduce you to group work processes, especially as they relate to community level practice, and support you to develop skills for operating in the meso level of social work practice by focusing on the professional, ethical, legal and organisational contexts of practice

The course engages you in reflective practice, developing awareness of your own practice style, strengths and challenges.

As per the Australian Association of Social Work accreditation guidelines, this course will require mandatory attendance. This means that you must be present in 9 out of 12 tutorial workshops to be eligible to pass the course.