Handbook

This course aims to:

• Provide students with the knowledge and skills to practice responsibly and reflectively as a social care worker within Australian health and human services
• Involve students in researching, analysing and articulating a framework for inclusive and ethical professional within health and human services
• Inform students about, and enable them to critically reflect and comment on, relevant current social justice debates
• Educate students about the colonial history of Australia and its long-term effects on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including analysis of current policies and health and human services affecting ATSI families and communities
• Develop students' knowledge about current evidence-based professional practice models and approaches within health and human services
• Help students identify the cultural context of various practice, approaches and their relevance to specific situations and populations
• Delineate the connections between interpersonal practice, social policy and research at a national and international level