Psychosocial Support for Social Workers
GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE | |
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Course title | Psychosocial Support for Social Workers |
Chair of Labour and Social Security Law Sciences and Social Work | |
Number of ECTS credits | 4 |
Lecturer | prof.dr.sc. Daniela Šincek |
Office Address | Radićeva 13 |
Telephone | |
dsincek@pravos.hr | |
Associate | dr.sc. Anita Barišić |
Office Address | Radićeva 13 Rektorat/ prizemlje |
Telephone | +385 31 224 526 |
anita.barisic@pravos.hr | |
Associate | dr.sc. Anita Barišić |
Office Address | Radićeva 13 Rektorat/ prizemlje |
Telephone | +385 31 224 526 |
anita.barisic@pravos.hr |
COURSE DESCRIPTION |
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Course content |
Mental health, well-being and quality of life of professionals. Resilience of professionals, prevention and self-help. Challenges: professional stress and burnout at work and coping strategies. Vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue. Psychosocial support for professionals in social activities. Supervision - approaches, types and role in the development of the social worker and maintaining the quality of his work and psychological well-being. Coaching, focused awareness and other approaches to improving the psychological well-being of professionals. Psychotherapy - work on yourself as a basis for mastering education for a psychotherapist and benefits for a social worker. Recognition of more serious threats to one's own mental health and professional responsibility, as well as the possibility of re-establishing optimal functioning through treatment. As part of the exercises, licensed experts - external collaborators (supervisor, psychotherapist...) will demonstrate some of the techniques in providing psychosocial support to professionals in social work. |
Course learning outcomes |
Recognize the characteristics of psychological well-being and quality of life of professionals in social work , Recognize the challenges to psychological well-being and the mechanisms of their occurrence and effects on work social worker , Differentiate between different forms of psychosocial support for social workers , Differentiate the types and roles of supervision and their characteristics. , Describe other forms of psychosocial support such as coaching or focused awareness, Explain the role of psychotherapy in the development of psychotherapist skills , Recognize serious threats to mental health , |
TEACHING METHODS | |
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☑ Lectures ☐ Seminars and workshops ☑ Exercises ☑ Independent tasks ☑ Multimedia and internet | ☐ Distance education ☐ Office hours ☐ Laboratory ☐ Field work ☐ Mentoring work ☐ Knowledge test |
EXAMINATION PROCEDURE | |
☐ Oral exam ☑ Written exam ☐ Colloquium |
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ADDITIONAL FACTS |
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The exercises must take place in groups of a maximum of 15, optimally 10 students (ideally 6-10), and due to the possibility of demonstrating different techniques and the nature of the exercises, which corresponds to clinical exercises. |
LIST OF LITERATURE FOR STUDIES AND EXAMS |
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Required reading |
Ajduković, M. (2009, ur.), Refleksije o superviziji: međunarodna perspektiva. Zagreb, Pravni fakultet u Zagrebu i Društvo za psihološku pomoć Ajduković, M. . Kako pomoći pomagačima da sačuvaju svoje mentalno zdravlje U: Božičević, V., Brlas, S. i Gulin, M. (ur.): Psihologija u zaštiti mentalnog zdravlja; prijedlog smjernica za psihološku djelatnost u zaštiti i promicanju mentalnog zdravlja. Zavod za javno zdravstvo „Sveti Rok“ Virovitičko-podravske županije, Virovitica. 462-468. . 2012. Ajduković, M. (2009, ur.), Refleksije o superviziji: međunarodna perspektiva. Zagreb, Pravni fakultet u Zagrebu i Društvo za psihološku pomoć Zavod za javno zdravstvo „Sveti Rok“ Virovitičko-podravske županije, Virovitica. |
Ajduković, M. . Refleksije o superviziji: međunarodna perspektiva. . 2009. Zagreb, Pravni fakultet u Zagrebu i Društvo za psihološku pomoć |
Ajduković, M. i Ajduković, D. . Pomoć i samopomoć u skrbi za mentalno zdravlje pomagača. . 1996. Zagreb: Društvo za psihološku pomoć |
Ajduković, M. i Cajvert. Lj. . Supervizija u psihosocijalnom radu. . 2004. Zagreb, Društvo za psihološku pomoć |
Božićević, V. . Psihologija u zaštiti mentalnog zdravlja; prijedlog smjernica za psihološku djelatnost u zaštiti i promicanju mentalnog zdravlja. . 2012. Zavod za javno zdravstvo „Sveti Rok“ Virovitičko-podravske županije, Virovitica, 271-278 |
Družić Ljubotina, O. i Friščić, L. . Profesionalni stres kod socijalnih radnika: Izvori stresa i sagorijevanje na poslu. . 2014. DLjetopis socijalnog rada, 21(1) |
Optional reading |
Ajdukovic, M., Cajvert, L., Judy, M., Knopf, W., Kuhn, H., Madai, K., & Voogd, M. . ECVision. A European Glossary of Supervision and Coaching. ECVision. Supervision and Coaching in Europe: Concepts and Competences. Wien: Die Wiener Volkshochschule. . 2015. Retrieved from http://www. anse. at/ecvision/products. html. |
Caspi, J. . Coaching and social work: Challenges and concerns. . 2005. Social work, 50 (4) |
Hick, S. F. . Mindfulness and social work. . 2009. Lyceum Books. |