Topics/ Content outline:
Principles of safe social work practice in areas of risk for individual work; group work and whanau/family work; The impact of colonization on Māori ;Models of risk assessment and management; Child protection; Working with at-risk youth; Working with Māori; Practice skills for situations of risk; Self-care practices and supervision of and for social practitioners; Working effectively with multidisciplinary teams; Risk society and the bicultural Aotearoa/New Zealand context; Human rights frameworks; The anti-discriminatory perspectives of age, gender, disability, ethnicity, culture, religion and class; Dangerous dynamics and ecological approaches to risk in general.