Becoming a critical social work practitioner
Course provided by: Open University
This free course, Becoming a critical social work practitioner, will guide you through some important concepts. An understanding of 'critical perspectives' will help you take a positive and constructive approach to problems that arise in social work practice.
Learning outcomes
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the nature and boundaries of personal and professional discretion and judgement in the delivery of social work services; recognising the complex tensions between personal and social processes in people's lives.
- Demonstrate an understanding of the complex relationship between justice, care and control and the practical and ethical effects of this relationship.