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SOWK29001 Ethical and Legal Issues in Practice

Ethical and Legal Issues in Practice

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General Information

Overview

This unit provides you with an overview of the interface between the ethical principles and legal imperatives informing social work practice in Australia. You will explore the values and principles upon which social work ethics and human service law are based. Further, you will examine the challenges to ethical decision-making practitioners can expect to encounter in multiple practice settings, where you will deal with situations, competing rights and responsibilities, and involuntary participants in intervention. With a view to developing your own robust ethical framework for future practice, you will be encouraged to reflect critically on your personal values and attitudes and consider how they might impact on your work with clients and stakeholders whose life-experience, views and values differ from your own. Students will be undertaking their first fieldwork placement, or, alternatively be a part-time student who is working as well doing this unit. This will enable students to reflect on their practice within a human service agency.

Details

Career Level: Postgraduate

Unit Level: Level 9

Credit Points: 6

Student Contribution Band: 10

Fraction of Full-Time Student Load: 0.125

Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

There are no requisites for this unit.

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

Offerings For Term 3 - 2025

Sydney

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).