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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Second Year standing.This course emphasizes theories, concepts, and skills of social work practice with urban families. The application of advanced practice skills used in working with individuals, families, and small groups is the central content of the course. Special attention is given to practice with special populations who face the social and personal problems of urban community life. Family practice methods are a major focus of the course. This advanced year course concentrates on what is unique about various individuals, couples, and families and how to deal with these unique issues.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Second Year standing.In this course students develop knowledge, skills, and values for several models of group and organization practice to help families. The emphasis is on practice dealing with meeting the needs of urban families through working with larger systems and through advocacy and organization. The theme of strengths-based practice is carried through from the foundation courses. The major focus is on developing skill in working with those larger systems in addressing the issues faced by urban families. Special attention is given to group methods for working with urban families and family members.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and acceptance to the MSW program.This course will expose students to multiple perspectives in assessing and diagnosing adults, adolescents and children implementing culturally sensitive theories and practices founded on social work values and ethics that incorporate a strengths based approach to social work practice. Students will learn how to assess a client system within the framework of the social work system which relies upon the DSM-IV-TR.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Second Year standing.Advanced Field Practicum I is the first semester of the advanced concentration field practicum courses. In the advanced field practicum, students continue to build upon the knowledge and skills gained during the foundation program. The course provides field education about the advanced concentration curriculum, which focuses on social work with urban families. The first practicum is designed to provide experience in direct work with families or subsets of families, offering an opportunity to put classroom learning into practice. Students are required to complete approximately 250-300 hours of supervised practice in their assigned social service agency and attend the field practicum course designed to integrate classroom learning and field experience. Letter grade only.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Second Year standing.Advanced Practice with Urban Families Field Practicum II is the second semester of the advanced concentration field practicum courses. The course provides field education about the advanced concentration curriculum, which focuses on social work with urban families. This second practicum is designed to provide experience in larger system work with and on behalf of families, coordinating with the content classroom learning. During the second semester of field practicum, students continue at their first semester assigned placement site while continuing to enhance their social work practice skills. Students are required to complete approximately 300-360 hours of supervised practice in their assigned social service agency. Letter grade only.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Second Year standing.This course examines the complex issues of family crisis, trauma, and grief for social workers working with urban families and individuals who have experienced these conditions. Several theoretical approaches are examined, with an emphasis on crisis intervention in traumatic and stressful situations, as well as issues of death and dying and the grief and loss that are associated with them. In the modern urban environments, many people experience traumatic events in their daily lives. The purpose of the course is to acquaint social work students with the nature and impact as well as some of the concepts, theories, and principles for dealing with client systems of all sizes when they face crisis, trauma, and grief. The significance of crisis, trauma, and grief for fields of practice such as mental health, hospital social work, child welfare, gerontology, and other social services and in community violence and terrorism are explored.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Second Year standing.This course provides a more in-depth view of social science research methods useful for social work practice. It provides the knowledge and skills that enable students to be intelligent consumers of information, to conduct social research, to critically evaluate social work practice and policy. Students will also learn how to use research to scientifically evaluate their own practice. The current socio-political climate is increasingly focusing on assessing the costs, quality, and effectiveness of social services. Therefore, this course is based on the assumption that as a practicing social worker, you will be engaged in applying research findings in your clinical work and using research methods to monitor and evaluate clinical interventions and services to urban families.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Second Year standing.This course is designed to help students gain knowledge and skills of policy practice (including both analysis and advocacy) to effectively participate in the development and advancement of policies that support and effect change at multiple levels of diverse client systems in urban environments. This course helps build skills in both formal and informal policy analysis, identifying underlying values, and communicating and organizing to effect policy formation and change.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Second Year standing.In-depth study of a selected theme or issue in Social Work. Topics offered may change from semester to semester. Critical writing and reading is required. (A) Child Welfare; (B) Addictions; (C) Mental Health; (E) Practice DSM-IV-TR; (G) Supervision; (I) Aging and Families; (J) Immigration Issues and Practice in Urban Settings; (K) Dream Work/Interpretation; (L) Social Work with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Individuals, Families, and Communities; (M) Group Therapy in Mental Health Settings with Urban, Multicultural Clients; (N) Couples Therapy: A New Research-Based Approach; (O) Social Work in Healthcare Settings; (P) Family Therapy for Social Workers; (Q) LCSW Preparation Course; (R) Social Work Practice in Schools.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Second Year standing.Offered as the culminating experience of the graduate program, students complete an individual or group research project reflecting the students’ interest and needs in working with urban families (SWRK 698). This project meets the culminating experience requirements.
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