After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- define aims and basic principles in social work with persons with disabilities
- explain types of impairment which result in disability
- define different approaches and criteria in determining disability
- recognise basic characteristics of individual types of disability
- describe and explain determinants of social position of persons with disabilities in society
- single out and discuss basic paradigms and models of approaching disability
- describe different theoretical starting points in understanding disability
- identify, explain and group rights and services intended for persons with disabilities.
Application
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- interpret patterns and characteristics of social positon of persons with disabilities in society and use knowledge about various impairments
- interpret specific features of families of persons with disabilities
- use guidelines from various theoretical approaches in recognising the needs of persons with disabilities and members of their families
- use knowledge about the rights from various systems: social security, education system, pension system, health care system in planning interventions in the work with persons with disabilities
- demonstrate the process of planned changes in work wirh person with disability
Analysis
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- categorise different definitions and approaches to disability
- analyse various forms of support to persons with disabilities
- compare the position of persons with disabilities in international documents and legal regulation of the Republic of Croatia
- distinguish specific chracteristics of persons with certain types of disability and analyse the context of needed support
Synthesis
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- plan important elements in assessment of needs of persons with disabilities
- organise collected information about a persons with disabilities and members of their families
- propose the application of individual rights and services, and needed interventions intended for the improvement of quality of life of persons with disabilities.
Evaluation
After successfully completing the course, students will be able to:
- design and prepare a protocol for the assessment of social position of persons with disabilities
- understand and evaluate specific characteristics of families of persons with disabilities
- propose, design and organise the procedure of realisation of rights or services for a person with disability within social security system
- apply specific features connected to communication with persons with disabilities
- plan and implement a meeting wth persons with disabilities with the aim of assessing family situation
