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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on social work practice in health settings from a "person-in-environment" perspective, preparing students with an understanding of the roles that social workers play in health settings, the structure of health care delivery systems, organizational and professional ethics and standards, challenges we face in health care policy, and patient issues and how to help to address these issues. Specific knowledge and skills in a health care setting are addressed, including biopsychosocial assessments, chart documentation, treatment planning, and discharge planning.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an ecological perspective emphasizing the interconnections between individuals experiencing violence and their social environments. Emphasis is placed upon broad coverage of all-important aspects of child abuse, incest, intimate partner violence, rape, and elder abuse. This course is appropriate for students who wish to gain skill in detecting and responding to incest situations for clients, sexual assault survivors, and victims of intimate partner violence or elder abuse.
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3.00 Credits
This course enhances student understanding of human diversity and prepares students to engage in a lifetime pursuit of cultural competence. Students are encouraged to discuss the intricacies of their own particular diverse dominant and minority social statuses and their relations to other persons, especially future social work clients. Although the course is not designed to train students in particular practice skill sets, emphasis is placed on enhancing respectful and empathic communication.
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3.00 Credits
This course critically analyzes African-American/black family life, culture, structure, and functioning. The focus is on knowledge and skill development for family intervention. Specifically, students review the historical development of black families in America, evaluate and analyze major family theoretical models, identify practice strategies and gaps and/or deficiencies in the existing social work practice literature, and focus on the advantages and disadvantages of utilizing these models in practice with black families.
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3.00 Credits
necessary to improve the delivery of mental health and mental health related services to diverse populations.
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3.00 Credits
School social workers seek to maximize student success and promote optimal learning opportunities by helping to remove the variety of barriers that prevent school-based personnel and children from working to the best of their abilities. This course introduces the student to school social work practice and related issues, such as biased educational practices, behavior, economic constraints, physical and emotional problems, and community and family adversity.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to social gerontology and gerontological social work. Topics cover the demography of aging and the physical, cognitive, and psychosocial aspects of aging; social and health care policies that impact older persons, their caregivers, and the aging network of services; the impact of ageism, sexism, racism, ablebodyism, beautism, and homophobia on our work with older people; as well as the promotion of dignity, self-determination, and socio-economic justice for older people.
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3.00 Credits
This course covers age and health demographics, as well as attitudes toward aging and health. Topics include basic cellular or molecular theories of aging, how the human body's organ systems typically change over time, pathologies associated with aging, as well as psychological responses to normal and pathological changes.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides a framework of values, knowledge, and skills necessary to practice with vulnerable children and their families. The major focus is on social work in public child welfare agencies and children's mental health agencies. The course utilizes an ecosystems perspective for understanding and assessing the special needs of at risk children and families.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with knowledge and skills related to the theory, research, and implications of child and adolescent maltreatment for child development and psychopathology.
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