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Social work capstone: Contemporary issues in social work practice
SWM5131
Synopsis
This unit is the culmination of your academic journey into a growing professional identity at an entry-level. The unit provides an opportunity to reflect on the processes, including an examination of personal and professional values that are involved in becoming a reflexive social work practitioner. You are required to develop your professional practice approach by identifying a case scenario or a social work issue, to integrate and apply a range of social work theories, methods, advanced practice skills and ethical decision-making to formulate your emerging professional practice in written and oral form.
Sourced from the Monash Handbook 2026.
Quick facts
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 5
- Audience
- Postgraduate
- Type
- Coursework
- School
- Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
- Faculty
- Social Work
- Handbook year
- 2026
Prerequisites
No prereqs in the handbook graph.
What it unlocks
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Offerings (3)
- First semester (extended)Caulfield · BLD-BLK
- Trimester 3Caulfield · BLD-BLK
- Second semester (extended)Caulfield · BLD-BLK