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3.00 Credits
This is the first of a four-course practice sequence. The generalist model of professional practice utilizing the sequential problem solving approach is presented. Content focuses on value based, culturally sensitive techniques for effective worker-client communication; establishing, maintaining, and terminating effective working relationships; and engaging in data collection, assessment, intervention and evaluation processes with client systems of various sizes. Students are required to spend two hours per week in service learning. Prerequisites: SW 214 and upper division status in Social Work program. Offered Each Year (Fall).
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Continues building on a value based, culturally sensitive generalist model of social work practice from a strengths perspective. Interactional skills necessary for intervention with systems of all sizes with a focus on individuals and families are explored. Emphasis is placed on personal and ethical issues as students examine and refine learned skills from their personal frame of reference. Students are required to spend 2 hours per week in service learning. Prerequisites: SW 325 and upper division status in Social Work program. Offered Each Year (Spring).
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Students are guided through an examination of death as a universal human experience. The psychological and sociocultural impact of dying will be explored as well as a brief history of thanatology, the process of grief, mourning and bereavement, ethical issues concerning death, legal aspects of death, euthanasia and funeral and last rites. Prerequisites: SOC 201, PSY 103. Offered Alternate Years.
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This course engages students in analysis of the behavior of individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities in their bio-psycho-socio-cultural milieu. The theoretical paradigms that impact the development of individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities are examined with special emphasis on evaluating the impact of social class, gender, sexual orientation, and racial/ethnic group membership. Students are required to spend two hours per week in service learning. Prerequisites: SW 214, SOC 224, BIO 103 and upper division status in Social Work program, or permission of instructor. Offered Each Year (Fall and Spring).
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The course introduces students to the area of marital and family dynamics with particular focus on the major areas of dysfunction. Through both analysis of the essential elements of these relationships as well as introspective looks at their own families, students learn to identify the primary reasons for marital and family discord. Prerequisite: Junior status. Offered Alternate Years.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the various types of groups used in contemporary social work practice for the purpose of acquainting students with the process of assessing for therapeutic need for a group. In addition, students will acquire a basic understanding of all the stages required for proposing, developing, and leading a group. Prerequisites: SW 214, SW 325 and upper division status in Social Work. Offered Each Year (Spring).
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3.00 Credits
This course is structured with a glance to the past and a view of the future of mental health and the mental health system. Themes that will be explored are the history of mental health, the mental health system, governmental roles in the mental health system, mental health services, the mental health exam, assessment of lethality and crisis intervention, children and the mental health system, dual diagnosis, the elderly and the mental health system, religion, race, ethnicity and gender and mental health, consumer rights and the mental health system and mental health services in the managed care environment. Prerequisite: PSY 103 or permission of instructor. Offered Alternate Years.
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Guides students in the value based, culturally sensitive conceptually framed professional skill development utilizing the interactional (mediation) model of intervention with diverse populations and systems of all sizes. Target systems include individuals and groups. Offered concurrently with the first semester of field placement. Prerequisites: SW 326, 334, senior status in Social Work program and concurrent enrollment in SW 451. Offered Each Year (Fall).
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3.00 Credits
Cross-listed as SOC 432. A functional analysis of contemporary social policies and how they are developed in social welfare delivery systems, the linkages between social problems, policies, programs and services and the advocacy and lobbying processes; political and economic implications of major social welfare legislation. Prerequisites: SW 311 and senior status in Social Work program. Offered Each Year (Fall).
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3.00 Credits
Courses devoted to special topics, e.g., contemporary issues in mental health. Offered As Needed.
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