Course Name

SOCIAL WORK THEORY　

URL

https://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/931SWtheory/　

Course Desgn

The knowledge base of social work practice comes from a wide spectum of social science disciplines including pshchology, sociology, and other science. The course will provide the conceptual, ethical and practical basis for analyzing social problems and issues and translating these theoretical constructs into social work practice.  

Course Objectives

This course aims to review social work practice "theories", to offer an assessment and arrive at an understanding of them and their value in morden social work practice. It is about social work practices "theories", which try to explain, describe or justify what social workers do. Each session will describe and discuss how we have applied the basic principles of the "theory" in social work practices "theory" and show how theory is used in a comprehensive prescription for social work activity. We will try to help students in understanding the following topics:
a. making sense of theories and methods of social work
b. using psychodynamic theories in social work
c. using crisis intervention and task-centered theories in social work
d. Using behavioural theories in social work
e. Using cognitive theories in social work
f. Using system theories in social work
g. Using theories based on social psychology in social work
h. Usingradical theories in social work
i. Using theories of advocacy and empowerment in social work
j. Using humanist/existential theories in social work  

Course Requirements

Students of the class are expected to do before-class preparations and all the assignments given after
every class.
There will be writing tests for the mid-term and the final. Also there will be exercises to be done at home.
As the reading materials will either be uploaded to the CEIBA class page or distributed to the individual e-mail box, it is expected that all students have proper computer equipments and essential operating skills to get the class work going.
The class are also expected to keep close attention to the announcements on
the bulletinboard to be well informed of what-to-dos and how-to-dos for the
course.  

References

1. Payne, M (1997). Modern social work theory. : Macmillan Press.
2. please refer to refernces in all sessions  

Evaluation

Week

Topic

1

Introduction  

2

Making Sense of theories and methods in social work  

3

Using psychodynamic theories in social work  

4

Using crisis intervention and task-centered theories in social work  

5

Using behavioral theories in social work  

6

Using cognitive theories in social work  

7

Using systems theories in social work  

8

Using theories based on social psychology in social work  

9

Using theories based on social psychology in social work  

10

Using theories of advocacy and empowerment in social work  

11

midterm Exam  

12

演講  

13

Using radical theories in social work  

14

Anti-discriminatory theories in practice in social work  

15

Assessing and Integrating theories and practice in social work  

16

MULTICULTURALISM IN SOCIAL WORK  

17

paper presentation