Veidlapa Nr. M-3 (8)
Study Course Description
Bio-psycho-social Aspects of Behaviours
Course Code
LUSDK_029
Branch of Science
Sociology and social work
ECTS
3.00
Target Audience
Social Welfare and Social Work
LQF
All Levels
Study Type And Form
Full-Time
Study Course Implementer
Course Supervisor
Ilze Trapenciere
Structure Unit Manager
Liāna Deklava
Structural Unit
Department of Rehabilitation
Contacts
Riga, 26a Anninmuizas boulevard, socdk@rsu.lv, +371 67061575
About Study Course
Objective
To deepen knowledge in social work on child' mental health care, analyzing cases and discussion of social assistance and intervention perspectives for. To promote complex and systematic process of providing help, biopsyhosocial risk assessment, prevention and psychosocial rehabilitation in social work.
Preliminary Knowledge
Basic knowledge in social work.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1.Students will obtain knowledge about role of social work in children and adolescent mental health care; child and adolescent mental health and social problems; prevention and treatment options; social care for children and youth with substance and alcohol addiction etc.
Skills
1.Will be able to analyze the intervention plans for children and youth with addiction problems; to develop new comptence in child protection work; will be able to describe children's social residential care.
Competences
1.Will be able to develop competencies in developing intervention plans for children and youth in mental health care, prevention and treatment option and will obtain knowledge and skill about addictions.
Assessment
Individual work
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Individual work |
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Group-work tasks, preparing the case, final essay, discussions.
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Examination
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1.
Examination |
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Final paper essay in one of the areas covered in the course (20 000 characters of actual text) – 70%.
Participation in the thematic discussions on Moodle and presentation of case study – 30%.
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Study Course Theme Plan
FULL-TIME
Part 1
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Lecture
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Introduction – the role of social work in children and adolescents' mental health care. Environmental situations that influence children and adolescent behavior. Social psychiatry, multidimensional perspective of human biopsychosocial development and development of psychopathology, prevention of mental health (promotion and maintenance).
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Introduction – the role of social work in children and adolescents' mental health care. Environmental situations that influence children and adolescent behavior. Social psychiatry, multidimensional perspective of human biopsychosocial development and development of psychopathology, prevention of mental health (promotion and maintenance).
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Social care for children and youth with substance and alcohol addiction; common tasks for psychosocial intervention. Residential and community psychosocial services. Application of biopsychosocial empirical findings to social work engagement, assessment, interventions, and evaluation by adopting the evidence based behavioral practice process.
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Social care for children and youth with substance and alcohol addiction; common tasks for psychosocial intervention. Residential and community psychosocial services. Application of biopsychosocial empirical findings to social work engagement, assessment, interventions, and evaluation by adopting the evidence based behavioral practice process.
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Social care for children and youth with substance and alcohol addiction; common tasks for psychosocial intervention. Residential and community psychosocial services. Application of biopsychosocial empirical findings to social work engagement, assessment, interventions, and evaluation by adopting the evidence based behavioral practice process.
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Social care for children and youth with substance and alcohol addiction; common tasks for psychosocial intervention. Residential and community psychosocial services. Application of biopsychosocial empirical findings to social work engagement, assessment, interventions, and evaluation by adopting the evidence based behavioral practice process.
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Topics
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Child and adolescent mental health and social problems. Mental retardation. Disorders of psychological development, behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence. Prevention and treatment options on the individual and social level. Risk assessment, psychosocial interventions, outcome evaluations.
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Child and adolescent mental health and social problems. Mental retardation. Disorders of psychological development, behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence. Prevention and treatment options on the individual and social level. Risk assessment, psychosocial interventions, outcome evaluations.
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Child and adolescent mental health and social problems. Mental retardation. Disorders of psychological development, behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence. Prevention and treatment options on the individual and social level. Risk assessment, psychosocial interventions, outcome evaluations.
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Child and adolescent mental health and social problems. Mental retardation. Disorders of psychological development, behavioral and emotional disorders with onset usually occurring in childhood and adolescence. Prevention and treatment options on the individual and social level. Risk assessment, psychosocial interventions, outcome evaluations.
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Social work intervention and planning: Interventions in local authority social work, Ensuring safety, effecting change. Attachment theory. Direct work with children and young people.
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On site
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Social work intervention and planning: Interventions in local authority social work, Ensuring safety, effecting change. Attachment theory. Direct work with children and young people.
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Social work intervention and planning: Interventions in local authority social work, Ensuring safety, effecting change. Attachment theory. Direct work with children and young people.
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Expertise in child protection work. Communication and alliance in social work, multidimensional differences between social relationships and the realm of the professional collaboration, professional communication, leadership management in psychiatric and social rehabilitation.
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Auditorium
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2
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Topics
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Expertise in child protection work. Communication and alliance in social work, multidimensional differences between social relationships and the realm of the professional collaboration, professional communication, leadership management in psychiatric and social rehabilitation.
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Location
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Expertise in child protection work. Communication and alliance in social work, multidimensional differences between social relationships and the realm of the professional collaboration, professional communication, leadership management in psychiatric and social rehabilitation.
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Location
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Expertise in child protection work. Communication and alliance in social work, multidimensional differences between social relationships and the realm of the professional collaboration, professional communication, leadership management in psychiatric and social rehabilitation.
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Location
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Social work in children's social residential care: institutional and personal assistance for children and youth with mental disorders, providing support and social rehabilitation. Representation of children's rights and protection.
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On site
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Social work in children's social residential care: institutional and personal assistance for children and youth with mental disorders, providing support and social rehabilitation. Representation of children's rights and protection.
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Location
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Contact hours
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On site
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Social work in children's social residential care: institutional and personal assistance for children and youth with mental disorders, providing support and social rehabilitation. Representation of children's rights and protection.
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Location
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On site
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Auditorium
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Topics
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Social work in children's social residential care: institutional and personal assistance for children and youth with mental disorders, providing support and social rehabilitation. Representation of children's rights and protection.
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Social work ethical principles and dilemmas in mental health care.
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Social work ethical principles and dilemmas in mental health care.
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Social work ethical principles and dilemmas in mental health care.
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Total ECTS (Creditpoints):
3.00
Contact hours:
48 Academic Hours
Final Examination:
Exam (Written)
Bibliography
Required Reading
1.
AddictionX: Managing Addiction: A Framework for Successful Treatment
2.
Robin Timmons, Leonard W. Hamilton (2009), Drugs, Brains and Behavior; Rutgers University
3.
David Belin (ed.) From Pathophysiology to Treatment; InTech 2012. Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/addictions-from-pathophysiology-to-treatment
4.
Davidson L.L., Grigorenko E.L., Boivin M.J., Rapa E., Stein (2015) A focus on adolescence to reduce neurological, mental health and substance-use disability. Nature, 2015 Nov 19; 527(7578)
5.
Fodor M, Sofi G. (2015) The dangers of drug career in young people. Orv. Hetil, 2015 Nov 15; 156 (46):1843-6
6.
Intellectual Disability: Management, Causes and Social Perceptions. Mancini Domenico F., Greco Carlo M. Nova Science Publishers, Inc . May 2012
7.
Ainsworth Patricia, Baker Pamela C. (2004), Mental Retardation. University Press of Mississippi
8.
Goodman Robert, Scott Stephen (2012), Psychiatry (3rd Edition) John Wiley & Sons.
9.
Intellectual disability (mental retardation): Causes, symptoms and Treatments.
Additional Reading
1.
Course overview Managing Addiction (EdX)
2.
Biosocial Model in DBT: How Symptoms Arise and Are Maintained
3.
R. Andrew Chambers, Jane R. Taylor, Marc N. Potenza, (2003), Neurocircuitry of Motivation in Adolescence: A Critical Period of Addiction Vulnerability; Am J Psychiatry 2003; 160:1041–1052