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Social Work and Crisis Intervention
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Summary of the Profile
General Description:
Objective(s) of a study programme:
To provide a basic, university-level education in the field of social work studies that meets European standards, by training specialists whose professional competence would enable them to effectively intervene social problems in the community, education, health care systems, the labour market and other systems, effectively providing and organizing specific social services for a client and their family, and ensuring their continuity; to form strategies of social policy and social assistance in various systems in which a person operates.
Learning outcomes:
Social work professional trained at KU acquire the knowledge and capacities laid out in Dublin Descriptor (2004) and Regulations of Social Work (2021): knowledge of the essence of social work; crisis intervention; the values of a social worker; their ethical responsibility to customers; the state and economic systems, the processes of socialization and social adaptation; human rights in the context of social justice; and the methodology and methods of research; abilities to carry out research and interpret data, other special, personal and social abilities.
Activities of teaching and learning:
Unit of general university modules is devoted to students' general cultural education and introduction of students to social, cultural, and religious phenomena of social development. Unit of professional modules offers the basics of social sciences, pedagogy, psychology, and economics, helps students to get prepared for specific social work in community and health care system and enable them to integrate their knowledge, abilities, and skills. All contemporary didactic means and methods (informational, operational, and creative) are utilized: lectures, seminars, lab works, practices and practicums, project and social programme designing, discussions – problem talks, reviewing essays, course papers, tutorials, teamwork, and students' independent work with references.
Methods of assessment of learning achievements:
Students‘ knowledge is assessed on a scale of 10 points. The final grade consists of the grades for students‘ independent work assignments, participation in seminars (up to 0,5 final grade) and performance during the exam (not less than 0,5 of the final grade). The grades for the independent work assignments accumulate on the principle of an increasing sum, and during the exam, the final grade is derived, egual to the sum of intermediate grades multiplied by their share in the final grade.
Framework:
Study subjects (modules), practical training:
Social work programme covers 210 credits. Subjects of elective general subjects (unit A) include 18 credits, subjects of study field (unit B) include 192 credits. For practice internships there are appointed 4 study modules consisting from semester 4 through semester 7.
Introduction to the specialty and professional ethics
Human rights and social work
Sociology of deviations in social behavior
Family and social environment
Introduction to Psychology
Lithuanian social policy
Basics of communication
Theory and methodology of social work (with practicality)
Personalities and social psychology
Coursework 1
Basics of sociology in social work
Social work with individual and group
Sociocultural activities in the community
Crisis psychology
Social gerontology
Counseling in social work
Existential therapy in social work
Social support in social work
Practice in non-governmental organizations (with supervision)
Mental health and care
Basics of social work with the disabled
Psychosociology will not
Term paper 2
Internship in educational, healthcare and probation institutions (with supervision)
Social risk groups and resocialization
Social work with youth
Internship in social work services (with counseling)
Optional major subject
Social work with family
Management of social programs
Self-employment practice (with counseling)
Bachelor thesis
Specialisations:
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Optional courses:
Students are offered 4 optional subjects, which cover 18 credits in total: a freely chosen subject from any study programme in any faculty. 5 credit subject from professional specialization subjects‘ list.:
Caritative social work
Social work with children who have experienced sexual violence
Social work with refugees
Dolphin assisted therapy
Occupational therapy
Distinctive features of a study programme:
Social work is one of the professions of helping people, which requires particularly high professional competence. The aim is to empower the person to whom services are provided and dignified, full participation in society. In the study process, a lot of attention is paid to the development of personal strength and leadership of the future social worker.
These are the only such studies that meet international requirements and provide social work qualifications and crisis intervention knowledge bases.
Access to professional activity or further study:
Access to professional activity:
After completing the studies of Social Work at KU, students will have the following career opportunities: social work in the community, in the system of social care, in the system of health care, in educational, legal, and non-governmental institutions.
Access to further study:
Studies can be continued in the graduate study programmes of Social Work, Social Pedagogy, Public Health, Public Administration, Marketing Management, and Penitentiary Law.
