Overview of the Study Program

In its learning, the social welfare study program has a scientific scope:

• Theoretical concepts in the field of social welfare manifested by being able to analyze social problems and social issues based on these theoretical concepts.
• Social interventions at the micro and macro levels, in the context of community empowerment and development

Vision

As an organizer of Higher Education in the field of applied science that produces professional Social Welfare Science graduates and has academic insight and is able to develop the task of analyzing and empowering communities and handling social problems conceptually, holistically, operationally, and is able to apply it in society.

Mission

1. Organizing quality higher education in the field of Social Welfare Science
2. Develop and carry out research and community service through the application and analysis of Social Welfare Science to various dynamic social phenomena and problems..

Graduate Competencies

Main Competencies:

Able to carry out community/community empowerment and development

Supporting Competencies:

Able to be Mediator, Advisor, Facilitator. Teacher, Enabler, Therapist. Social Planner, Social Therapist, Social Welfare Researcher, Social Welfare Problem Analyst

Other Competencies:

Able to master Information Technology, English, Theory and Practice of Social Problem Handling Work

Goals

1. Producing social welfare graduates who have high academic quality, are rational, uphold the principles of science in general, and are virtuous and skilled in their fields.
2. Producing social welfare graduates who are able to compete in the job market and create their own jobs.
3. Producing scientific works and their applications through education and teaching, research, and community service activities.
4. Forming a normative academic life that is based on scientific attitudes, objective, honest, open, critical, innovative, and mutual self-evaluation and upholds the values of truth.
5. Realizing professionalization, efficiency, and effectiveness of work in the institutional system, especially at the department level and generally at the faculty/university level.
6. Realizing academic services that are practical and provide satisfaction to customers and foster mutually beneficial cooperation with other institutions, both within the scope of the University of Jember and outside the University of Jember.

Profile of Study Program Graduates

Graduate Profile
1. Social Policy Analyst.
2. Psychosocial Counselor.
3. Community Social Worker.
4. Humanitarian Service Agency Manager.
5. Social Work Researcher.

Social Policy Analyst Profile

Specific Skill Capabilities
1. Able to explain the meaning, formulation process, social policy mechanism and social policy analysis;
2. Able to understand social policy theory, social policy analysis models and formulation of implementation, analysis and evaluation of social policies;
3. Able to formulate social policy problems;
4. Able to apply social policy research methods and social policy analysis techniques;
5. Able to carry out social policy research activities to provide social policy alternatives and recommendations;
6. Able to utilize information technology in conducting social policy analysis;

Knowledge Ability
1. Able to explain the meaning, formulation process, social policy mechanism and social policy analysis;
2. Able to understand social policy theory, social policy analysis models and implementation formulation,
3. Able to formulate social policy problems;
4. Mastering social policy research methods and social policy analysis techniques;
5. Able to conduct social policy research activities to provide social policy alternatives and recommendations;
6. Able to utilize information technology in conducting social policy analysis;

Psychosocial Counselor Profile
Ability Specific skills
1. Able to apply counselor interpersonal skills (verbal and non-verbal communication);
2. Able to apply relationship bonding (avoiding dual relationships and other helping relationship norms);
3. Able to practice how to empower clients (facilitation, teaching/education and support);
4. Able to practice skills using one’s own experience (the use of self);
5. Able to practice the skills of: (a) Listening; (b) Asking questions
open-ended questions; (c) Affirmation; (d) Summarizing, and (e) Rolling with resistance;
6. Able to practice the skills of: (a) Explore, (b) Affirm, (c) Reflect, and (d) Summarize;

Knowledge Ability
1. Understand the characteristics of counselors;
2. Understand the interpersonal skills of a counselor;
3. Being culturally familiar with non-verbal communication;
4. Understand the therapeutic relationship (dual relationship, transference etc);
5. Understand counseling as an empowerment process;
6. Recognize the positive and negative aspects of self disclosure;
7. Master basic counseling skills and cross cutting skills;

Community Social Worker Profile
Ability Specific skills
1. Able to practice group facilitation, education and support skills;
2. Able to practice psychoeducation;
3. Able to assess problems, potential, and needs at the community level by utilizing the latest technology and information;
4. Able to design plans in overcoming social welfare problems at the community level;
5. Able to present various alternatives for handling social welfare problems at the community level to be able to contribute in making strategic decisions;
6. Able to intervene in social welfare problems at the community level using community social work methods, strategies and techniques;

Knowledge Ability
1. Recognize the positive and negative aspects of self-disclosure;
2. Master basic counseling skills and cross cutting skills;
3. Mastering the stages of change experienced by clients (pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, recurrence);
4. Understand group counseling;
5. Mastering psychoeducation for individuals, groups and families:
6. Master the concept of community social work from a socio-cultural, economic, ecological, spiritual and human rights perspective;
7. Mastering the principles and approaches of community social work

a. managerial challenges in the context of interaction between the organization and its environment.
b. the dynamics of problems, policies, and the development of the social service organization system.
c. handling internal and external conflicts of social service organizations;
7. Communicate, coordinate, and discuss with certain stakeholders in exploring and explaining the basis and results of managerial decisions to stakeholders (external and internal) as needed;

Knowledge Ability
1. Understand social concepts, social welfare science, and the macro environment of social service organizations;
2. Mastering the open system perspective in understanding the existence, behavior of social service organizations, and external factors that affect the existence and behavior of social service organizations;
3. Mastering the managerial concepts of social service organizations, policy formulation, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the performance of social service organizations;
4. Update references and best practices based on the latest research data (evidence-based practice) in understanding and applying the concepts and approaches of social service organizations, including a critical and in-depth understanding of the management of social service organizations;
5. Understand the consequences of social change on the understanding and application of social service organization approaches and concepts;

6.Describe and explain the local and global challenges of social service organizations.
7. Understand the concept of formulating policies, plans, strategies and programs for social service organizations;
8. Understand the concepts and mechanisms of monitoring and evaluating program implementation and management functions of social service organizations;
9. Understand the concept, locus and consequences of discretion (making decisions outside of policy) in social service organizations;
10. Understand the problem solving mechanism of social service organizations;
11. Understand the mechanisms of social interaction and various forms of negotiation between social service organizations and their environment;

Scientific Vision Questionnaire