introduction to Social unit, work will cover a summary of what the social work profession is all about,it will in particular address the following key areas ; social welfare, social work as a profession and career, behavioral problems and counseling, family problems and services to families, sexual orientation, sex variances and sex counseling, drug abuse and drug treatment, crime, juvenile delinquency and correctional services, racism, ethnocentrism and strategies for advancing, socio-economic justice, elders and services for the elderly, health problems and medical social services.
Course rationale
The primary mission of social work profession is to enhance human wellbeing and help meet the basic human needs of all people with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of people who are vulnerable, oppressed and living in poverty. This course therefore focuses on individual wellbeing in a social context and the wellbeing of society as a whole. It also gives special attention to the environmental forces that create, contribute and address problems in a life time.
Course objectives
Ø To enable students acquire skills and knowledge in the field of social work and social administration.
Ø To help students build the capacity to deal with the dynamic social problems
Ø To enable students acquire ethical standards which the general public can hold onto the social work profession
Ø To ensure that students have the capability to identify the core values on which social work’s mission is based.
Ø To enable the candidates develop a broad base of ethical principles that reflect the profession’s core values and establish a set of specific ethical standards that should be used to help social workers.
- Lecturer: Komurere Abigail