Postgraduate Student Practicum

A key objective of the Sondai project is providing opportunities for postgraduate students to gain social work practicum experience with agencies serving PLWHA.  This is in keeping with the project’s aim of developing a cadre of postgraduate students with advanced knowledge and skills for working with PLWHA and for assisting agencies in the development of appropriate policies and practice.

In the period May through September 2006 the following postgraduate practicum were completed:

Bernadette Cyrus

Pediatric Special Clinic Trinidad

• Report on the Psychoeducational Group at the Pediatric Special Clinic in Trinidad
• Sondai – The New Experiences -Powerpoint Presentation

Khadijah Williams-Peters

Save the Children Fund (VINSAVE) St. Vincent and the Grenadines

• Reflection on Practice: Exploring management approaches to managing HIV/AIDS, with specific reference to programmes
• Reflection on Practice: Exploring management approaches to managing HIV/AIDS, with specific reference to research

Marva de Freitas Charles

Basic Training Programme for Frontline Personnel in the Hospital Environment Trinidad

• The Sondai Project:  Keep Pushing Forward – Programme Theory
• The Sondai Project:  Keep Pushing Forward - Training
• The Sondai Project:  Keep Pushing Forward – Recommendations
• One Day Foundation Sensitization Programme (©The Social Work Unit Department of Behavioural Sciences)

Tracie Rogers

Sinikithemba HIV/AIDS Care Centre, Mc Cord Hospital Durban South Africa

• Lessons form South Africa – Reflection on Practice
• The Role of the Social Worker in Paediatric ARV Rollout
• Pediatric Disclosure
• Documents created for Sinikithemba Pediatric Clinic
  • Psychosocial Assessment Form
  • Disclosure Protocol
  • Disclosure Policy
• Psychosocial Issues facing Children and Adolescents - 2MB Powerpoint Presentation