Social Work and Disaster Risk Reduction

Freestanding course, Master’s level

7.5 credits

Distance | mixed hours | 50%

29 August 2022 - 4 November 2022

Full tuition fee: 10000 SEK

Open for late application

About the course

This online course deals with social work in relation to crises and disasters from different theoretical perspectives and relate them to social work and its domain of knowledge. It examines key concepts such as vulnerability, risk, resilience and dependencies with a focus on how these concepts reflect underlying power relations and social and material processes. It also deals with different ways of organizing disaster risk reduction and crisis preparedness in connection to conditions of social work, from the social workers perspective and from the people in need of support and help.

Course content

Syllabus autumn 2022

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Entry requirements and selection

Entry requirements

Undergraduate degree from an educational program with at least 180 credits, including a final degree thesis comprising 15 credits in criminology, pedagogy, psychology, nursing /care science, sociology/social work or equivalent. Alternatively 180 credits from a social work program including final degree thesis comprising 15 credits.

Selection

University credits completed 100%

Course literature

Course literature and other teaching materials

Aronsson-Storrier M, Dahlberg R, (red.) (2021) Defining Disaster: Disciplines and Domains. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. (kapitel i urval 80 sidor).

Alston M, Hazeleger T, Hargreaves D, (2019) Social Work and Disasters: A Handbook for Practice. London and New York: Routledge. (233 s.)

Cuadra C B, ( 2021) Positioning social work in relation to disasters: A social notion running along a continuum. I Aronsson-Storrier M, Dahlberg R, (Eds.) Defining Disaster: Disciplines and Domains. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. (20 s).

Gillespie D F, Danso K, (Eds.) (2010) Disaster concepts and issues: A guide for social work educa¬tion and practice. Alexandria, VA: CSWE Press. (270 s).

Van Heugten K, (2014) Human service organizations in the disaster context. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (172 s).

Wahlstrom M, (2017) Social work and the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. European Journal of Social Work, 20(3): 333-336. (3 sidor).

Wisner B, Blaikie P, Cannon T, and David I (2003) At Risk, Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability and Disasters. New York: Routledge. Del 1. (134 s).

UNDRR (2020) The human cost of disasters: an overview of the last 20 years (2000-2019) (17 s).

Rapeli M, (2017) The role of social work in disaster management in Finland. Doctoral thesis, Jyväskylä University (74 s).

Maximum 200 pages can be added in the form of scientific articles and chapters.

Course evaluation

The course coordinator is responsible for ensuring that a summative course evaluation is carried out at the end of the course. The course coordinator presents the results to the students at the start of the following course. Notes from the feedback are to be made available to the students on the course and also be presented to the students who start the course the next time it is run.

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