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Course Module: Classical conditioning
Course Topic: Classical (respondent or Pavlovian) conditioning
Comment: this simply testifies how asresponse could be achieved through use of food or other life needs

Course Module: Project management overview
Course Topic: Project Management History
Comment: project managememt was also needed to co-ordinate construction of the great pyramids

Course Module: Accounting information
Course Topic: Owner's Equity
Comment: i found this course very helpful and helps me study and work at the same time

Course Module: Project Management Assessment
Course Topic: Project Management Assessment
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Course Module: Characteristics of effective laws
Course Topic: Fairness, Access, Time and Values
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Course Module: Productivity Programs Assessment
Course Topic: Productivity Programs Assessment
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Course Module: Module 1: What is Social Work?
Course Topic: Key Roles of Social Work
Comment: KEY ROLES IN SOCIAL WORK
Social workers must uphold public trust and comfidence in social work services.Their primatry responsibilitty is to protect and provide the welfare and well being children,vulnerable adults and communities.For these the roles of a Social Worker makes the following recommendations:
1.Social workers is and should remain a generalist profession,with a strong common value,skills and knowledge base.
2.Certain functions should be reserved for Social Workers and should be set out in regulations.This is to ensure the protection of the public.
3.All organisations employing Social Workers and Social Workers' professional organisations should adhere to and promote the codes of practice for Social Service Workers and Employers Social Service Workers (The Codes).
4.A national framework for post registration,training and learning of Social Workers should be established and organisations held held to account for their provision of appropriate arrangements.
5The review Group should define the roles,responsibility and status of the Chief Social Work Officer and require organisations to locate the post appropriated to safequard the public.
6.The level of complexity and responsibility carried by Social Workers should be reflected in the career structures and renumaration available to them.
7.Employing organuisations must have arrangements in place to ensure the workload of Social Workers is commensurate with the tasks required of them.This will include ensuring sufficient time is made available to allow the development of helping relationships which is an essential part of Social Work practice.
8.Social Workers must have access to professional consultation support,advice from appropriate experienced Social Workers.This consultation and management should focus on assisting Social Workers to reflect critically on their practice,use their powers effectively and make complex decisions.
9.All organisations employing Social Workers must have in place formal arrangements which define the status of line management and professional consultation and clearly set out their parameters.
10.All organisations employing Social Workers must implement development and appraisal processes that give due recognition to service reqiurements and individual development needs.
11.All organisations employing Social Workers must ensure effective workforce planning and development at local level to meet emerging need,maintain a competent and effective workforce and contribute to the workforce planning at a national level.
12.Organisations employing Social Workers must have in place an effective mechanism to create a coherent overview of policy development relevant to social work and to monitor and evaluate this properly.
13.Employers must provide Social Workers with access to appropriate skilled professional and administrative support within an organisation fit for purpose.
14.Employers and Social Workers must work together to develop a culture of learning,valued and promoted throughout agencies and organisations which reinforces the importance of being aware of current research and putting this into practice.
15.Social Workers should intervene earlier with complex cases to avert crises but simple early interventions and preventive work should be the role primarily of universal services and /or social work services/social care.
16.Easily accessible and available social work services should not require complex assessment processes.All organisations require a shared understanding and agreed protocols which define the roles and responsibilities of different professionals at different stages of intervention and articulate how to access more specialist services,across agency boundaries,as people move through the stages and tiers.
17.Organisations employing Social Workers should invest in research to provide evidence on which Social Worker knowledge and practice would be developed.
Zambia today faces its own challenges and opportunities-changing demography and employment patterns ,continuing inequality and growing expectations of public service.It is in this complex and ever changing enviroment that Social Workers must function.Their contribution to making Zambia a healthy and thriving society is vast but can only be realised if we recognise and strengthen the roles of Social Wokers in the context of a modern Zambia.The intentions of this paper is to set out a new vision for social work,based on existing values and to strengthen Social Workers'capacity to practise efficiently and effectively and ultimately bring about better outcomes for people who use their services.
Leadership at all levels is necessary at the frontline and politically both local and nationally.All organisations employing Social Workers should support and ensure this.

Module: Module 1: What is Social Work?
Topic: Introduction to Social Work
Comment: The International Federation of Social Workers defines Social Work in this way:"The Social work profession promotes social change ,problem solving in human relationships and the empowerment and liberation of people to enhance well being.Utilising theories of human behaviour and social systems,social work intervens at the points where people interact with their enviroments.Principles of human rights and social justice are fundamental to social work.Social work in its various forms addresses the multiple ,complex transaction between people and their enviroments.Its mission is to enable all people to develop their full potential,enrich their lives and prevent dysfunction.Professional social work is focused on problem solving and change.As such,Social Workers are change agents in society and in the lives of the individuals,families and communities they serve.Social work is an interrelated system of values,theory and practice.
Social Work grew out of humaritarian and democratic ideals,and its values are based on respect for the equality worth,and dignity of all people .Since its beginning over a century ago,social work practice has focused on meeting human needs and developing human potential.Human rights and social justice serve as a motivation and justification for social work action.In solidarity with those who are disadvadvantaged ,the profession strives to alleviate poverty and to liberate vulnerable and oppressed people in order to promote social inclusion.Social work values are embodied in the profession's national and international codes of ethics.
Social work bases its methodology on a systematic body of evidence-based knowledge derived from research and practise evaluation including local and indigenous knowledge specific to its context.It recognises the complexity of interactions between human beings and their enviroment and the capacity of people both to be affected by and to alter the multiple influence upon them including bio-psychosocial factors.The social work profession draws theories of human development and behaviour and social systems to analyse complex situations and to facilitate individual,organisational,social and cultural changes.
Social work addresses the barriers ineqiuties and injustices that exist in society.It responds to crises and emergencies as well as to everyday personal and social problems.
Social work utilises a variety of skills,techniques and activities consistent with its holistic focus on persons and their enviroments.
Social work interventions range form primarily person -focused psychosocial processes to involvement in social policy,planning and development.These include counselling,clinical social work,group work,social pedagogical work and family treatment and therapy as well as effort to help people obtain services and resources in the community.Interventions also include agency administration,community organisation and engaging in social and political action to impact social policy and economic development.
This international definition of social work professionreplaces the IFWS definition adopted in 1982.It is understood that social work in the 21st century is dynamic and evolving and therefore no definition be regarded as exhautive.

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