LS Unit 521
Level 5 Diploma in Leadership for Health and Social Care Learner Name:
Unit Title: 521 Facilitate and development of effective group practice in health and social care or children and young people’s setting
Learner statement
Assessor Use Only- Assessment Criteria Met
Learner to provide narrative under each statement of how they meet the criteria. You must provide answers to each question that allow your assessor to properly assess what work duties you are doing or what role you have within your work. It expected that you will need approximately 300 words per question. The more detail you provide the less likely your account will be sent back for more clarification.
You must answer each question in your own words and written in the first person meaning “I do this”. A tip is always to keep in mind the “who, why, how, where and when” in each answer.
Learning Outcome 1- Understand how groups develop and function in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
1.1 Explain how you analyse the impact of theories and models on group work practice
Groups may be defined in many ways, indeed providing an absolute definition of a group, as with much of the theory around group work, is highly problematic and contestable. However for the purposes of discussing group work within a context of working with vulnerable customers l may define a group as a small gathering of customers. Group work may simplistically be described as the study and application of the processes and outcomes experienced when a small group comes together.
Researchers define group work as a method of social work that is utilised in order to `help individuals to enhance their social functioning through purposeful group experiences, and to cope more effectively with their personal, group or community problems`. This definition shows a tradition within group work of helping individuals with problems. Further research provides a modernised and more comprehensive definition of group
Unit Title: 521 Facilitate and development of effective group practice in health and social care or children and young people’s setting
Learner statement
Assessor Use Only- Assessment Criteria Met
Learner to provide narrative under each statement of how they meet the criteria. You must provide answers to each question that allow your assessor to properly assess what work duties you are doing or what role you have within your work. It expected that you will need approximately 300 words per question. The more detail you provide the less likely your account will be sent back for more clarification.
You must answer each question in your own words and written in the first person meaning “I do this”. A tip is always to keep in mind the “who, why, how, where and when” in each answer.
Learning Outcome 1- Understand how groups develop and function in health and social care or children and young people’s work settings
1.1 Explain how you analyse the impact of theories and models on group work practice
Groups may be defined in many ways, indeed providing an absolute definition of a group, as with much of the theory around group work, is highly problematic and contestable. However for the purposes of discussing group work within a context of working with vulnerable customers l may define a group as a small gathering of customers. Group work may simplistically be described as the study and application of the processes and outcomes experienced when a small group comes together.
Researchers define group work as a method of social work that is utilised in order to `help individuals to enhance their social functioning through purposeful group experiences, and to cope more effectively with their personal, group or community problems`. This definition shows a tradition within group work of helping individuals with problems. Further research provides a modernised and more comprehensive definition of group