15 Jan 2025 (Intake closed)
Apply by: 18 Dec 2024
New Session
Semester B - Online - each session is 2.5 hours, fully online (Wednesdays)
15 Jan 2025, 29 Jan 2025, 12 Feb 2025, 26 Feb 2025, 12 Mar 2025, 26 Mar 2025
Course overview
This course introduces a relatively new way of approaching shared decision making in health and social care internationally. This approach focuses on shared exchange of scientific and experiential knowledge between service users and service providers. In doing so, the course follows the coproduction approach which has originated in social work, as well as the strengths- based approach, aimed at optimising motivation and collaboration.
Students will:
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1) Acquire in-depth knowledge of conceptual and practice approaches relevant to shared decision making in the context of health and social care, which are drawn from a wide variety of disciplines including philosophy and ethics, risk avoidance and risk taking considerations, service user involvement, clinical reasoning, and values based decision making.
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2) Develop their critical thinking skills, learn to use relevant shared decision-making aids.
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3)Evaluate existing research, with an emphasis on developing the skills necessary for implementing their learning to shared decision making in their own health and social care practice.
This course is aimed to enable students to:
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1) to study an emerging area of personal interest within a professional context.
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2) Develop an individually tailored outcomes-based programme of study with guidance from an academic tutor/supervisor.
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3)Choose a topic that will be relevant to your professional practice. The choice of topic and learning outcomes will be the subject of negotiation between you and your supervisor.
If you have any queries about the module, please contact the module leader Shulamit Ramon via s.ramon@herts.ac.uk
This module can contribute to the following programme(s)
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Funding
£865.00


Prerequisites
The programme is subject to the University's Principles, Policies and Regulations for the Admission of Students to Undergraduate and Taught Postgraduate Programmes, along with associated procedures.
If you are interested in applying for the MSc Advanced Social Work programme, please contact the programme leader Kim Tran k.tran@herts.ac.uk in the first instance to discuss.

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