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3rd Bachelor in Social Services

 ECTS CreditsNumber of Hours (h/year)
230
215
230
115
560
430
560
Module intégration sociale
115
130
Module santé
115
115
115
Module travail-emploi
115
115
115
215
230
16375
115
100

Professional Ethics

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffBOULANGE, Annette
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodeSOC-SSOC0040/3
Prerequisite

2nd year course in Professional Ethics

Aims and Objectives
  • To define the concept of professional secrecy and its involvement in social worker practice.
  • To reflect on the application of theoretical principles in daily practice, in function of institutional context, nature of the work among others.
Description

Principles of professional secrecy

Violation of professional secrecy

Exceptions to the principle of professional secrecy

Sharing of professional secrecy

Bibliography

Secret..."Le secret professionnel : la reconstruction du sens - Actes du colloque du 20 mai 1999 à Charleroi". Dans :

Journal du Droit des Jeunes

, Liège, n°189, novembre 1999, p.3-32.

Carrefours..."Carrefours du printemps 2006 : le secret professionnel". Dans :

CPAS+

, Namur, n°8-9, août-septembre 2006, p.97-104.

www.uvcw.be/espaces/cpas/80cfm (Faire dérouler jusque mai 2006 : carrefours du printemps 2006 - en particulier le document intitulé "Le CPAS face au secret professionnel : état de la question")

Dans..."Dans les méandres du Secret Professionnel...Quelques repères incontournables et recommandations de bonnes pratiques". Dans : Les cahiers de l'Actif, La Grande Motte, n°346/347, mars/avril 2005, p. 7-170.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures

Lectures, case studies

Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

Technique of oral and written expression

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffCORNELIS, Annelore
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodeSOC-SSOC0025/3
Prerequisite

It is essential to master the oral and written French language.

Aims and Objectives

At the end of the course, the students should be able to write up relevant texts with accurate goals so that the students can prove they actually master the different aspects of the written language: grammar, spelling, syntax, vocabulary and style.

Description

Tips for profesionnal writing.

Curriculum vitae and covering letter.

Dissertation. 

 

Bibliography

Hanse et Blampain, Dictionnaire des difficultés du français moderne, Bruxelles : De Boeck-Duculot .

Teaching and Learning MethodsTutorials

Talks and other practical works i.e. writing up different professional

Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Problems of immigration

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffCECCHETTO, Milva
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodeSOC-SSOC0028/3
Prerequisite

None

Aims and Objectives

Bring students to awareness of problems encountered on the field in cross-cultural settings.

Call their attention to cultural shocks in populations consisting of people of different origins.

Show the stand which can be taken by social workers in the face of these problems.

Description

Anthropology today ; intercultural approach for social workers

Historical context : the current situation ; migration ; immigration problems

Integration. Can democracy and public recognition of cultural differences be conciliated?

Cultural shocks : problems of multi-cultural coexistence

Therapies and cultures

Bibliography

MORELLI A., Histoire des Etrangers et de l'immigration en Belgique de la préhistoire à nos jours, Vie Ouvrière, 1992.

MARTINIELLO M., Sortir des ghettos culturels, Presses de sciences Po, 1997.

CAMILLERI C., COHEN-EMERIQUE M., Chocs de cultures: concepts et enjeux, pratiques de l'interculturel, L'Harmattan, 1998.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Group seminars or workshops

Lectures by invited field workers, information from videos, press material, to show a series of reflectins on these subjects, to be confronted worth students’ personal experience from placement work and with all intercultural situations thery will have to face.

Assessment MethodsWritten and/or oral examination
Essays

Interview during which student is expected to show quality of thought, understanding, and adaptation concerning these contemporary problems

NotesNo
LanguageFrench

Urban sociology

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)30
Teaching staffBOULANGE, Annette
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 2
CodeSOC-SSOC0034/3
Prerequisite
Aims and Objectives

Ability to define urban sociology

Ability to state and explain problems related to the notion of space and of the city

Presentation of various initiatives used to manage social relations in space.

Description

Origins of urban sociology: The Chicago School. Influences of French and American sociology. Construction of interactions related to space (individualism, aggressive behaviour, absence of participation in social life, competition ...) Daily life, community organization, and local authority. Presentation of applications:

Bibliography
Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Group seminars or workshops
Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

Psychosocial approach of health

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffSTEVENS, Barbara
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 2
CodeSOC-SSOC0035/3
Prerequisite
Aims and Objectives

To analyze the concepts of health and disease.To approach the determinants of health.  To approach the legal, complementary and private Social Security cover To show the increased role of the social worker in this context.

Description

Chapter 1: Some important concepts.

1) Health: definitions 2) The disease: definitions 3) The quality of life: definitions 

Chapter 2: Disease

 1) dimensions of the disease 2) processes of acceptance 3) repercussions of the disease 4) patient's rights 

Chapter 3: Health and precariousness 

Chapter 4: Health and interculturality 

Chapter 5: The general cover of the care of health 

Chapter 6: The social worker and challenges of the medicine of XXIième century.

Chapter 7: Social assistance with the patients.

Bibliography
Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Assessment MethodsWritten and/or oral examination
NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

Addiction prevention

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffHALLEUX, Jean-Pierre
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 2
CodeSOC-SSOC0036/3
Prerequisite
Aims and Objectives

Ability to identify addictive behaviour and dangerous drug addiction, legal and illegal

Knowledge of legal and illegal addictive substances

Know-how in preventive work

Ability to refrain from judgement, to develop rehabilitation strategies

Knowledge of various aid and treatment methods

Description

Non pharmacological addictive behaviour (gambling)

Smokin, alcoholism

Pharmacomania

Illegal drugs : cannabis, heroin, cocain, amphetamines

Psychopathology of addicts ; detoxication techniques

Social and psychological therapy of addicts

Family, society and addiction, aid to rehabilitation and to parenthood

Prevention strategies

Bibliography
Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Assessment MethodsWritten and/or oral examination
NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

Psycho-social approach to the handicap

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffLAMBERT, Valérie
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodeSOC-SSOC0037/3
Prerequisite
Aims and Objectives

 At the end of the course, students will be able to :

- describe the main types of handicaps and services for handicapped persons ;

- to rid of its prejudices concerning the handicap ;

- reflect on specific social and psychological aspects of disability.

Description

Introduction: definitions, etiology, preventions,...

Short introduction to the main categories of handicaps (sensory, physical, mental).

Reflection on different social and psychological aspects of disability.

Bibliography

Comblain A. et Rondal J.A., 2001, Manuel de psychologie du handicap. Sprimont, Mardaga.

- Dalla Piazza S. et Dan B., 2001, Handicaps et déficiences de l’enfant. Bruxelles, De Boek.

- Guidetti M. et Tourrette C., 1996, Handicaps et développement psychologique de l’enfant. Paris, Colin/Masson.

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Group seminars or workshops
Assessment MethodsProjects or practical work
Continuous assessment
NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

Emploi-formation

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffRECHT, José
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 2
CodeSOC-SSOC0038/3
Prerequisite

None

Aims and Objectives

To use different concepts of "pragmatic" sociology

Description

"Cités" theory of BOLTANSKI and THEVENOT

Bibliography

BOLTANSKI L. et THEVENOT L., 1991, De la justification : les économies de la grandeur, Paris,  Gallimard, nrf essais, 482p

BOLTANSKI L.et CHIAPELLO E., 1999, Le nouvel esprit du capitalisme, Paris, Gallimard

NACHI M., 2006, Introduction à la sociologie pragmatique,  Armand Colin, Paris, Cursus

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Assessment MethodsOral examinations
NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

Insertion-réinsertion

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffRECHT, José
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodeSOC-SSOC0039/3
Prerequisite

None

Aims and Objectives

To know  the evolution of the socialworkers with a critical eye 

Description

Story of socialworker

Bibliography

VRANCKEN D.,2002, Le crépuscule du social, Bruxelles, Labor/Quartier libre

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Assessment MethodsOral examinations
Projects or practical work

10min/student

To take part in symposium

NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

Family policy

ECTS Credits1
Number of Hours (h/year)15
Teaching staffSTEVENS, Barbara
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 2
CodeSOC-SSOC0033/3
Prerequisite
Aims and Objectives

Locate the context of the Belgian family policyDefine the different types of family structure existing today.Show the role played be the family in constructing social tiesApproach the social worker's potential roles, both as concerns family policy and youth protection.

Description

Definition, description and explanation of different terms, services, structures and of the youth protection decree.

Analysis of different family patterns in relation to youth welfare and to delinquency.

Bibliography
Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
Assessment MethodsWritten and/or oral examination
NotesIn part
LanguageFrench

Anthropology

ECTS Credits2
Number of Hours (h/year)30
Teaching staffBAJOMEE, Alain
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1
CodeSOC-SSOC0009/3
Prerequisite

None

Aims and Objectives

The interest in other cultures arousing.

To prove our culture is just one culture, not “the” culture to avoid ethnocentrism

Description

Anthropology, its goals and methods (rejection of ethnocentrism) cultural and societal notions

History of anthropology

Anthropology of parenthood

Myths

Some peoples in particular : observation and analysis

Bibliography

J.CAMPBELL, puissance du mythe, J'ai lu, 1991.

J.COPANS, Introduction à l'ethnologie et à l'anthropologie, Nathan Université, Paris, 1996.

M.D'HERTEFELT, Anthropologie culturelle, Ulg, 1984.

P.P. GOSSIAUX, Anthroppologie culturelle, notes de cours, 1996

E.T.HALL, La dimension cachée, coll.Points, 1971.

F.LAPLANTINE, La description ethnographique, Nathan Université, Paris 1996.

F.LAPLANTINE, L'anthropologie, Seghers, Payot, 1985.

B.MALINOWSKI,Les Argonautes du Pacifique occidental, Paris, Gallimard,1963

Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures

Audiovisual method showing anthropologists at work and allowing a better understanding of various human behaviour.

Assessment MethodsWritten and/or oral examination
NotesYes
LanguageFrench

Sociology

ECTS Credits2
Number of Hours (h/year)30
Teaching staffLAPLANCHE, Valérie
Course UnitCompulsory
TermQuad. 1 and 2
CodeSOC-SSOC0012/3
Prerequisite

First and second year course

Aims and Objectives

Ability to understand the current social problems from a macro.

Description

The course more particularly develops the questions of social stratification. Several authors are studied to understand the inequalities and the tensions which cross the contemporary society.

Bibliography
  • Catherine BIDOU, « De la sociologie des classes à la socio-économie des inégalités. Evolution des représentations de la structure sociale depuis 20 ans », dans Les sociologies critiques du capitalisme, sous la direction de Jean LOJKINE, P.U.F., Paris, 2003.
  • Pierre BOURDIEU, La distinction : critique sociale du jugement, Paris, Ed. de Minuit, 1979.
  • Pierre BOURDIEU, La misère du monde, Paris, Seuil, 1993.
  • Robert CASTEL, Les métamorphoses de la question sociale- Une chronique du salariat, Paris, Gallimard, 1999.
  • Louis CHAUVEL, « Le retour des classes sociales », Revue de l’OFCDE, octobre 2001.
  • François DUBET, Danilo MARTUCCELLI, Dans quelle société vivons-nous ?, Paris, Seuil, 1998.
  • Jean-Paul FITOUSSI, Pierre ROSANVALLON, Le nouvel âge des inégalités, Paris, Seuil, 1996.
  • Henri MENDRAS, La seconde révolution française, 1965-1984, Gallimard, 1988.
  • Serge PAUGAM, Le lien social, Paris, P.U.F., 2008.
  • Serge PAUGAM, La disqualification sociale, Paris, P.U.F., 1991.
  • Serge PAUGAM, Les formes élémentaires de la pauvreté, Paris, P.U.F., 2005.
  • Serge PAUGAM, Le salarié de la précarité, Paris, P.U.F., 2000.
  • Michel PINCON, Monique PINCON-CHARLOT, Sociologie de la bourgeoisie, Paris, La Découverte, 2000.
  • Pierre ROSANVALLON, La nouvelle question sociale. Repenser l’État providence, Paris, Seuil, 1995
  • Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
    Assessment MethodsWritten and/or oral examination
    NotesIn part
    LanguageFrench

    General methods in social work

    ECTS Credits5
    Number of Hours (h/year)60
    Teaching staffBOULANGE, Annette
    CHAPELLE, Marie-Paule
    DI STEFANO, Oriella
    Course UnitCompulsory
    TermQuad. 1 and 2
    CodeSOC-SSOC0013/3
    Prerequisite

    1st and 2nd curriculum in Social Work

    Aims and Objectives

    At the end of the third year, students will be able to :

    Develop a critical stand as to the meaning , the reality and the practice of social work

    Evaluate social work according to its human, organizational and financial aspects

    Achieve personal relations at different levels : individual, organizational, structural

    Exercise their future profession in various social fields and adapt to a wide variety of situations

     

     

    Description

    Analysis of social intervention methods

    Intervention techniques, interviews, groups, negotiation

    Analysis of intervention situations, crisis, emergency, mandate

    Bibliography

    Revue spécialisée : L’observatoire

    CHOPART G., Les intentions du Travail Social, Paris, Ed. Dunod, 2000.

    BOUTANQUOI M. , Travail social et pratiques de la relation d'aide, L'Harmattan 2001.

    LAMOUREUX H., LAVOIE J., MAYER R., PANET-RAYMOND J., La pratique de l'action communautaire, Presses de l'université du Québec 2008.

    Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures

    Lectures, work groups, role playing, reference to situations encountered by student trainees in placement

    Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
    Oral examinations

    Written and oral examinations, continuous assessment : group work, skill in public speaking, capacity for self-assessment, adequate use of all personal resources

    NotesYes
    LanguageFrench

    Laboratory of social work

    ECTS Credits5
    Number of Hours (h/year)60
    Teaching staffDI STEFANO, Oriella
    GRIDELET, Anne-France
    STEVENS, Barbara
    Course UnitCompulsory
    TermQuad. 1 and 2
    CodeSOC-SSOC0016/3
    Prerequisite
    Aims and Objectives

    To develop the professional identity in its various components- To sensitize the students with realities of ground and the context in which they fit- To develop a reflexivity and a glance criticizes on theses practices

    Description

    Transverse Approach of social work: populations, social problems/questions and interventions within the framework of integrated methodology

    Grids and objectives concerning the situation reports.

    Presentation of the various places of training course.

    Development of reports of situation - presentation according to planning

    Careful thoughts in connection with the application of methodology (to distinguish various sequences in maintenance, its various objectives and to use in an adequate way the tools allowing to accompany the user compared to his autonomy, his awakening, the evaluation, the analysis of its situation,… if necessary, presentation in the form of animation of the reports relating to the social work completed with a group; presentation of projects worked out in training course)

    Debates open in connection with the practices of the welfare officer

    Intermediate and final self-evaluation of the participation

    Bibliography
    Teaching and Learning MethodsGroup seminars or workshops
    Assessment MethodsContinuous assessment
    NotesNo
    LanguageFrench

    Methods in social research

    ECTS Credits4
    Number of Hours (h/year)30
    Teaching staffCECCHETTO, Milva
    STEVENS, Barbara
    Course UnitCompulsory
    TermQuad. 1 and 2
    CodeSOC-SSOC0018/3
    Prerequisite

    None

    Aims and Objectives

    Students must be aware of a strict approach complementary to methods of social work.

    They must be able to use techniques of social intervention, such as Action Research or organizational research

    Description

    Policy and procedures in Action Research

    Models and limits of organizational research

    Bibliography

    Interventions psychosociologiques ; J. Dubois, Puf paris

    Outils pour un développement solidaire, I. Gassel, sociologie du travail 88

    La méthode, E. Morin, Paris Seuil 81

    Teaching and Learning Methods

    Lectures, class work, situation exercises

    Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
    NotesYes
    LanguageFrench

    Training course in placement and guidance

    ECTS Credits16
    Number of Hours (h/year)375
    Teaching staffCOPS, Carole
    CROCHET, Véronique
    DAL FARRA, Anna
    Devlaeminck, Anne
    GOVONI, Vinciane
    HEBRANT, Chantal
    HUSKIN, Christine
    LEONET, Claudine
    MAES, Patrick
    MAZY, Carine
    Course UnitCompulsory
    TermQuad. 1 and 2
    CodeSOC-SSOC0020/3
    Prerequisite

    2nd year curriculum in Social Work

    Aims and Objectives

    Placement : improve vocational skills and assistance relationship in terms of knowledge, know-how and attitude

    Guidance: analysis and reflection on placement work and on institutional and methodological aspects of practice. Improvement of professional competence and of assistance relationship

    Description

    Placement : daily work in the host service and eventually work on a specific project

    Guidance : content varies according to placement experience

    Bibliography

    stage et supervision : recours constant aux notions théoriques abordées lors de cours généraux ainsi qu’aux documents internes, réglementations, législations propres aux différents lieux de stage. Parallèlement, diverses lectures peuvent être individuellement conseillées aux étudiants suivant les demandes, spécificités et/ou difficultés rencontrées.

    Teaching and Learning MethodsTutorials

    Placement: field work under supervision of a professional social worker, and the guidance of member of teaching staff.

    Guidance: individual meetings between students and teacher, one hour each fortnight, to discuss a formal report turned in beforehand.

    Assessment MethodsContinuous assessment

    Placement: Continuous assessment + regular on the job assessments by teacher, host supervisor and student.

    Guidance: Continuous assessment of student’s written reports and oral discussions.

    NotesIn part
    LanguageFrench

    T.F.E.

    ECTS Credits10
    Number of Hours (h/year)0
    Teaching staffBOULANGE, Annette
    CECCHETTO, Milva
    CHAPELLE, Marie-Paule
    COPS, Carole
    CROCHET, Véronique
    DAL FARRA, Anna
    Devlaeminck, Anne
    DI STEFANO, Oriella
    GOVONI, Vinciane
    GRIDELET, Anne-France
    HEBRANT, Chantal
    HUMBLET, Frédéric
    HUSKIN, Christine
    LEONET, Claudine
    Ligot, Eric
    MAES, Marianne
    MAES, Patrick
    MAZY, Carine
    PIETTE, Anne-Thérèse
    RECHT, José
    RENSON, René
    STEVENS, Barbara
    VANGUESTAINE, Claude
    Course UnitCompulsory
    TermQuad. 2
    CodeSOC-SSOC0021/3
    Prerequisite
    Aims and Objectives

    The students will be able to :

    Observe and analyse individual and global social issues.

    Act professionally

    To reflect an encountered social themes

    To integrate the results of their observation and analysis in a dissertation

    Description

    The dissertation is a practical exercise. The institutional and theoretical references, the case studies, the use of methodological tools demonstrate the students’ capacity to analyse reflect and act

    Bibliography
    Teaching and Learning MethodsProject or fieldwork

    Individual supervisions of frame 

    Assessment MethodsDissertations
    NotesNo
    LanguageFrench

    Practical approach in social institutions and social work

    ECTS Credits2
    Number of Hours (h/year)15
    Teaching staffHEBRANT, Chantal
    Course UnitCompulsory
    TermQuad. 1
    CodeSOC-SSOC0022/3
    Prerequisite

    Definitions and history assistance to have satisfied it the requirements of the theoretical and practical tests of the second year.

    Aims and Objectives

    The student will be able to characterize the various types of credit and to apply the rules rising from the law of June 12, 1991 bearing to the consumer credit.It will be able to define and apply the procedures of mediation of debts and collective payment of debts.

    Description

    Remembering of the general concepts of Right; Analyze law of bearing June 12, 1991 on the consumer credit and the mediation of debts; Analyze law of bearing July 5, 1998 on the collective payment of debts; Exercises of application.

    Bibliography

    La médiation de dettes de l’Observatoire du Crédit et de l’Endettement

    Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
    Tutorials

    Lectures (illustrated with practical examples and exercises )

    Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
    NotesYes
    LanguageFrench

    Social project construction

    ECTS Credits2
    Number of Hours (h/year)30
    Teaching staffHUSKIN, Christine
    MAES, Patrick
    MAZY, Carine
    Course UnitCompulsory
    TermQuad. 1
    CodeSOC-SSOC0023/3
    Prerequisite

    2nd year curriculum in social work

    Aims and Objectives

    - elaborate a relevant questioning about diverse aspects affecting the realisation of individualised projects

    -describe different aids and methods used in the individualised projects and situate them in their context

    -apply this questioning and these aids to concrete situations which happened during the training period

    Description

    I. Introduction : evolution of the social work, use of the project methodology in social work, sorts of individualised projects, sectors in wich these projects are developed

    II. Preliminary questioning to the achievement of an individualised project (values, stereotypes, institutional context, intervention styles...)

    III. Methods ant aids : proposition of differents aids used for the achievement of individualised projects : picture language, testing method, skill tests, short therapy, life stories, contract mediation, training to social abilities, teaching intervention methodology, reports...

     

    Bibliography

    "Intervenir avec cohérence. Vers une pratique articulée de l'intervention" PAQUETTE Claude

    "Transformations des pratiques et évolutions des méthodologies d’intervention professionnelle en travail social" Marie-Rose LE DAIN In « Revue française de service social » N° 217 -juin 2005

    « La relation d’aide. Développer des compétences pour mieux aider » Luc TREMBLAY Chronique sociale

     

    Teaching and Learning Methods

    Alternatively theoretical lectures and practical courses (role plays, group work, observation and analysis of documents used in differents services)

    Assessment MethodsWritten and/or oral examination

    written examinations, or oral examinations

    NotesYes
    LanguageFrench

    Literature searching and bibliography

    ECTS Credits2
    Number of Hours (h/year)15
    Teaching staffWALLON, Françoise
    WOUTERS, Corinne
    Course UnitCompulsory
    TermQuad. 1
    CodeSOC-SSOC0024/3
    Prerequisite

    First year courses

    Aims and Objectives

    They must be able to correctly draft o formal bibliography according to rules studied in the course and through numerous drills

    Description

    Drafting of bibliographic descriptions

    Bibliography

    VAESSEN, Hélène et al. La notation des références bibliographiques. Liège : ISIS, département Information-Communication, 1998. 27p.

     

    Teaching and Learning MethodsLectures
    Tutorials
    Assessment MethodsWritten examinations
    Continuous assessment
    NotesYes
    LanguageFrench

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