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Professional Identity 2 (SCWK90073)

Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25On Campus (Parkville)

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This subject aims to continue students’ process of self-exploration and theory/practice integration, enabling them to progress a knowledge of self from Professional Identity 1 into a knowledge of professional self in multiple social work contexts. Students will draw on their previous course work, field education placements and emerging e-portfolio to create and curate a consolidated personal Professional Identity Framework. They will use this framework to articulate their professional social work identity across academic and multiple workplace settings.

Intended learning outcomes

On completion of the subject, students should be able to: 

Knowledge 

  • Identify and describe the elements of social work practice and frameworks for illustrating social work professional identity
  • Identify and describe different organisational and systemic contexts of social work practice.

Skills 

  • Collate and interpret a personal narrative of competence in social work practice using artifacts and professional identity frameworks
  • Compare and critique organisational and systemic contexts of social work practice.

Application of Knowledge and Skills 

  • Identify artifacts such as personal tasks completed and skills demonstrated which can be collated into a framework for social work professional identity development
  • Translate their personal/professional values and personal/professional lived experience into an expression of social work professional identity
  • Distinguish between different organisational and systemic contexts of practice to create context specific expressions of social work professional identity.

Generic skills

  • Understand recent developments in social work contexts of practice
  • Link theory to practice
  • Competently communicate in ways relevant to both academic and practice context.

Last updated: 2 March 2024