Contexts of Social Work Practice unit (HGW516)

Each week, you will complete an hour of online learning activities (including lectures, videos, podcasts and other activities). You will also have approximately one hour of prescribed reading to complete each week. In addition, you will attend weekly 2-hour face-to-face tutorials. In total, you will need to allow 8-10 hours per week to complete all of the learning and assessments for this unit, including independent study. There is an 80% attendance requirement to meet accreditation standards.

You can access the Reading List for this unit from the link in MyLO, or by going to the Reading Lists page on the University Library website.

The list of weekly readings (book chapters and journal articles) is provided below. Required readings must be completed prior to that week’s tutorial.
 

Week 1         

Required:

Morley, C., Ablett, P., & Macfarlane, S. (2019). The critical potential of social work. In Engaging with social work: A critical introduction (2nd ed., pp. 1-32). Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.

Walter, M., & Baltra-Ulloa, J. (2019) Australian Social Work is White. B. Bennet & S. Green. (Eds). Our Voices: Aboriginal Social Work (2nd ed. pp. 65-85). Red Globe Press.

Week 2         

Required:

McAuliffe, D., Boddy, J., & Chenoweth, L., (2023). Locating the lighthouse: Values and ethics in practice. The road to social work and human service practice (7th ed., pp. 53-82). South Melbourne: Cengage Learning

Australian Association of Social Workers. (2020). Code of Ethics. Australian Association of Social Workers. Retrieved from http://www.aasw.asn.au/practitioner-resources/code-of-ethics.   

Australian Institute of Family Studies. (2023). Mandatory Reporting of Child Abuse and Neglect. Retrieved from: https://aifs.gov.au/resources/resource-sheets/mandatory-reporting-child-abuse-and-neglect

Recommended/Optional:

Australian Institute of Family Studies. (2023). Mandatory reporting of child abuse and neglect: CFCA Resource Sheet — August 2023. Retrieved from https://aifs.gov.au/resources/resource-sheets/mandatory-reporting-child-abuse-and-neglect

Week 3         

Required:

Gough, J., & Spencer, E. (2019). Ethical social work practice in the technological era. In S.M. Marson, Jr Robert., & R.E. McKinney. (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Ethics and Values (pp. 251 - 256), Taylor & Francis.

Boddy, J., & Dominelli, L. (2017). Social media and social work: The challenges of a new ethical space. Australian Social Work, 70(2), 172-184. 

Week 4         

Required:

Reamer, F.G. (2019). Boundary issues and dual relationships in social work (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Social Work Ethics and Values (pp. 157-163), Taylor & Francis.

Green, S. (2018) Aboriginal people and caring within a colonised society. In B. Pease, A. Vreugdenhil & S. Stanford (Eds.). Critical ethics of care in social work: Transforming the politics and practices of caring. (pp. 139-146). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.  

Week 5         

Required:

Ozanne, E., & Rose, D. (2013). The changing context of human service practice. In The organisational context of human service practice (pp. 1-16). South Yarra, Victoria: Palgrave Macmillan.

 Bennett, B., & Zubrzycki, J. (2003). Hearing the stories of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander social workers: Challenging and educating the system. Australian Social Work, 56(1), 61–70.

Recommended/Optional:

Okun, T. (1999). White supremacy culture. Retrieved from: https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/uploads/4/3/5/7/43579015/okun_-_white_sup_culture_2020.pdf.   

Harris, J. (2015) (Against) Neoliberal social work. Critical and Radical Social Work, 2(1), 7–22.

Week 6         

Required:

The following texts will be helpful in expanding your learning in this unit (they are available through the UTAS library, so you do not need to purchase them):

• McAuliffe, D., Boddy, J., & Chenoweth, L., (2023). The road to social work and human service practice (7th ed.). South Melbourne: Cengage Learning
• Morley, C., Ablett, P., & Macfarlane, S. (2019). Engaging with social work: A critical introduction (2nd ed.). Port Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
• Carson, E., & Kerr, L. (2020). Australian social policy and the human services (3rd ed.). Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.
• Connolly, M., Harms, L., & Maidment, J. (Eds.). (2017). Social work contexts and practice (4th ed.). South Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
• McClelland, A., Smyth, P., & Marston, G (Eds.). (2020). Social policy in Australia: Understanding for action (4th ed.). South Melbourne: Oxford University Press.
• Pease, B., Vreugdenhil, A., & Stanford, S. (Eds.). (2018). Critical ethics of care in social work: Transforming the politics and practices of caring. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.  
• Rice, S., Day, A., & Briskman, L. (Eds.). (2018). Social work in the shadow of the law (5th ed.). Sydney: The Federation Press.