The Integrative Practice Study is the assessable assignment related to work
undertaken on placement and also draws on learning from all modules. It should
describe and analyse a piece of work undertaken on placement with an individual
or a family or a group or a community. The study should address the process
of the work from the engagement phase through to assessment and planned response
to need and risk. It should include material which looks at issues from the
following:
Family and Life Span Module, as appropriate to the work undertaken.
"Poverty, Deprivation and Discrimination" and "Disadvantage"
Modules, as they affect the work undertaken.
Relevant material on the public and social policy context.
The legal framework for the agency's contact with an individual or a family
or a group or a community.
The ways in which theoretical approaches to social work apply to this piece
of work.
An analysis of the student's role and impact on the situation.
Discussion of the student's own learning and use of supervision.
Students must discuss issues related to values, including their own, in
the work undertaken. Issues of anti-discriminatory and anti-racist practice
should be identified and discussed, where appropriate to the work undertaken
and/or the organisational context. Students should explain the rationale for
any decision not to address issues of anti-racist practice.
Please note that, for assessment purposes, the body of the text must incorporate
all the substantive material necessary to provide an answer for this task. Appendices
will be considered as providing supplementary evidence only. The substantive
material must be within a 10% range of 5,000 words.