2017/18 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

HECS2208 Social Work Perspectives in Drugs and Alcohol

20 creditsClass Size: 50

Module manager: Iain Moody
Email: i.j.moody@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2017/18

Pre-requisite qualifications

Normally 120 credits at level 1

Module replaces

HECS2151 Social Work Perspectives in Drugs and Alcohol (from 2014/15)

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

Note for incoming study abroad student: This module is primarily focused on social work training in the UK and within UK law

Objectives

- To analyse the extent of drug and alcohol use in England and Wales and to set this in an international context.
- To analyse a range of current interventions, theory and policy around drugs and alcohol, including the law, risk assessment and management of risk.
- To analyse the impact of drugs and alcohol on child welfare, adults and minority groups.

Learning outcomes
On completion of the module student will be able;
1. To analyse the extent of drug and alcohol use in England and Wales and contextualise this internationally.
2. To evaluate current policy and law in relation to alcohol and drug use.
3. To evaluate a range of theoretical perspectives in working with drugs and alcohol in social work
4. To analyse the impact of drugs and alcohol on children and adults in social work practice.
5. To explain the structural context of alcohol and drug use and the impact of this on anti-oppressive practice with service users and carers.
6. To analyse the role of drugs and alcohol when working with sex workers, issues of sexual exploitation and sexual violence.

Skills outcomes
SOP
2.2, 2.3, 2.7
3.1,3.3
4.4
5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4
6.1, 6.2
8.4, 8.8
9.1, 9.3
13.1, 13.2, 13, 13.4
14.5, 14.6, 14.7

PCF
Professionalism 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.7
Values & ethics 2.1, 2.2
Diversity 3.1, 3.2
Rights etc 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4
Knowledge 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5
Reflection & analysis 6.2, 6.4, 6.5
Intervention & skills 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.10, 7.12, 7.13
Context/Organisation 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6

Syllabus

- Drugs and alcohol awareness, the law, facts and figures international comparisons.
- Exploring social and political attitudes towards drugs and alcohol.
- Models of addiction Relapse prevention and abstention models
- The theory and practice of drug and alcohol interventions;
- Motivational interviewing
- Cognitive behavioural approaches
- Domestic violence and the use of drugs and alcohol
- Child welfare, drugs and alcohol
- Drugs and alcohol within minority groups
- Risk assessment and management
- Harm minimisation
- Service user perspectives
- Anti-oppressive practice & multi-disciplinary approaches to alcohol and drug use

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Group learning	12	1.00	12.00
Lecture	11	2.00	22.00
Tutorial	2	2.00	4.00
Independent online learning hours			30.00
Private study hours			134.00
Total Contact hours			38.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			202.00

Private study

Independent & online study and research skills development for both formative assessment & summative assessments
Private study/guided reading skills development and final written assignment

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Summative MCQ week 9 to consolidate relevant knowledge
Summative exercise - individual written assignment (end of module week 14)
Tutorial discussions with students

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	2500 words	75.00
In-course MCQ	1 hour MCQ	25.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

There is no compensation allowed; both elements have to be passed.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 17/08/2017

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