Unit of Study SWRK5004 Social Work Direct Practice II (2026)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

PG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Faculty of Health
Placement

No

Pre-requisites

SWRK5002 - Social Work Direct Practice I

Enrolment information

Students are required to meet participation requirements in this unit. Attendance is compulsory. All students must attend for a total of 42 hours. Online students are required to attend a 6 day residential at the Gold Coast Campus. Gold Coast students are required to attend 6 x 7 hour seminars delivered as one day workshops across the term. Further details, including dates, will be advised via the Blackboard site. This unit should be completed after SWRK5001 and SWRK5002.

Unit description

Builds on skills and knowledge gained in SWRK5002 Social Work Direct Practice I. Utilises theoretical approaches to examine modes of critical social work practice within diverse settings. This includes motivational interviewing family therapy and trauma informed approaches to working with “challenging clients”.

Unit content

Social work practice: contexts and discourses informing practice
Exploring theories for social work practice
Approaches for applying social work theories in practice
Social work with diversities
Social work with families
Social work with children and young people

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Gold Coast	Term3	Term3
Online	Term3	Term3

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

critically analyse different contexts of social work practice and the discourses informing and impacting practice in these contexts

critically evaluate diverse practice theories relevant to particular social work contexts and modes of practice

apply relevant social work approaches in complex direct practice situations

apply relevant social work theories and approaches in working with diversities in social work practice

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Seminar 7 hours per seminar (Weekly for 6 weeks)

Assessment
Case study	40%
Clinical skills	60%
Participation	SR

Teaching method

Residential 7 hours x 6 days (Once during term)

Assessment
Case study	40%
Clinical skills	60%
Participation	SR

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Fee information

Domestic

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