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Archived Version 2012 - 2013

Module Title
Module Code
School
Online Module Resources
NFQ level	8	Credit Rating	5
Pre-requisite	None
Co-requisite	None
Compatibles	None
Incompatibles	None

Description

This module is premised on the idea that personal, interpersonal and social change are often associated with the mobilisation of human strengths. Learners explore this idea through the medium of personal development work and an examination of how strengths-based principles are employed in various fields of helping and health action.

Learning Outcomes

1. Identify her or his strengths, skills and resources.
2. Formulate and realise goals for his or her own personal development.
3. Explore the use of strengths-based approaches in the helping professions, organisational development, and community development.
4. Evaluate the role of strengths-based approaches in action on health.

*Type*	*Hours*	*Description*
Workload	Full-time hours per semester
Lecture	12	Examining the principles and practices associated with strengths-based perspectives.
Group work	12	Experiential groups focused on identifying and cultivating personal strengths.
Directed learning	12	Complementing the experiential groups and focused on questions for personal development.
Online activity	12	Using on-line resources addressed to 'signature strengths'.
Assignment Completion	12	Preparation of an essay.
Independent Study	65	Incorporating reading for the module.
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities

The conditions for progress
Considering the idea of progress in personal, interpersonal, and social situations as well as the circumstances in which such progress occurs.

Strengths-oriented inquiry
Exploring the use of questions in assisting persons to endure and to make change.

Strengths-based therapies
Examining various strengths-based therapies that are employed within the helping professions like solution-focused therapy and positive psychotherapy.

Harnessing strengths in organisational and social change
Evaluating particular strengths-oriented approaches to organisational and social change like appreciative inquiry and asset-based community development.

Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment	%	Examination Weight	%

Type	Description	% of total	Assessment Date
Course Work Breakdown

Reassessment Requirement
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories; 1 = A resit is available for all components of the module 2 = No resit is available for 100% continuous assessment module 3 = No resit is available for the continuous assessment component
Unavailable

Indicative Reading List

Martin E. P. Seligman,: 0, Flourish: A New Understanding of Happiness, Well-Being - And How to Achieve Them., 9781857885699
John Sharry, Brendan Madden, Melissa Darmody: 2003, Becoming a solution detective, Haworth Clinical Practice Press, New York, 9780789018335
David L. Cooperrider (Editor), Diana, Ph.D. Whitney (Editor), Jacqueline M. Stavros (Editor): 0, Appreciative Inquiry Handbook, 9781576752692
Steve de Shazer, Yvonne Dolan; with Harry Korman... [et al.]: 2007, More than miracles, Haworth Press, New York, 9780789033970
Barry L. Duncan, Scott D. Miller, Jacqueline A. Sparks: 2004, The heroic client, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 9780787972400
0: Smile or Die, 31688
0: Born to Be Good, 31689
0: Researching resilience, 31690
2007: Handbook of solution-focused brief therapy, Haworth Press, New York, 31691
0: Creating Capabilities, 31692
1998: The strengths model, Oxford University Press, New York, 31693
0: Appreciative Inquiry, 31694
2002: The strengths perspective in social work practice, Allyn and Bacon, Boston, MA, 31695
0: Living on the razor's edge, 31696
2003: Authentic Happiness, Nicholas Bealey, London, 31697
0: Solution-focused groupwork, 31698
0: Handbook of hope, 31699
1990: Narrative means to therapeutic ends, Norton, New York, 31700
0: The Power of Appreciative Inquiry,

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None

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