SOWK 446 — Working with People in Need of Protection
Social Work · University of Ghana
The course is designed to enable students gain insight into circumstances that lead people to situations where they need protection. It examines basic human needs, societal responses and arrangements for meeting those needs. It also emphasises the impact and implications of deprivations on the individual, family, community and society. Laws, such as the Human Trafficking Act, Juvenile Justice Act, Children‘s Act, Persons with Disability Act, among others are discussed in this course. Attention is also paid to policies and programmes that have been designed for the protection and welfare of categories of people in need of protection.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 400
- Semester
- Semester Two
Other courses on this programme
- SOWK 430 — Long Essay
- SOWK 431 — Human Rights in Social Work Practice
- SOWK 432 — Working with Children
- SOWK 433 — Approaches to Counselling
- SOWK 434 — Working with Groups
- SOWK 435 — Social Work and the Law Courts
- SOWK 436 — Administration, Management and Evaluation
- SOWK 437 — Organisational Planning in Social Work Practice
- SOWK 438 — Family Welfare
- SOWK 439 — School Social Work
- SOWK 441 — Gender Issues
- SOWK 442 — Social Gerontology
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 2 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Humanities (2017).