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2.00 Credits
The focus of this course is on the interaction of child and family policies, practices and services that affect children, youth, and families. This course is designed to provide an in-depth analysis of the needs of children and their families, child and family policy and practices, and an examination of historical and contemporary child and family policy and services in the United States. This course examines definitions of the family and how such definitions influence the development of policy and services; the history and changing roles, functions, and responsibilities of the family; and, the challenges faced by children, youth and families today. Societal responses to address the needs of children and families will be explored, with a focus on the broad range of child and family policies, services, and practices that either support family, supplement the roles of family, or substitute for family when parents are unable to care for their children. Students are required to identify gaps in services, issues of social injustice or oppression, and develop a social action or advocacy agenda to effect improvement in the availability or delivery of services for clients.
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2.00 Credits
(Prerequisite: SW 577 and 411B ) This course builds upon the theories and skills learned in SW-577 Social Work with Groups, but takes them to a more sophisticated level. By focusing on vulnerable client systems in an array of settings, students will further develop the capacity to promote mutual aid by responding to and catalyzing group dynamics and process. Additional attention will be paid to the impacts of difference amongst group members, and between the worker and the group members. Through action and reflection, participants will be examining their own group work practice very closely through the use of experiential exercises, journaling, and critical incident analysis, and by hearing about their colleagues' work as well. Students must have taken SW-577, and must have an ongoing group to facilitate or observe in order to benefit from this class. This course meets the requirement for a clinical practice elective.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Social Policy (401), HBSE (411) The course focuses on issues and interventions regarding disability and chronic illness that affect adults and children physically, cognitively, and/or emotionally. Students gain understanding of historical and current day experiences of that population from the perspectives of their oppression and their response to oppression through rights and self-advocacy movements. Philosophical and practical frameworks studied include civil rights, inclusion, interdependence, and universal design in the built and social environments. Techniques are discussed for actions as advocates and allies with individuals, as social activists in coalitions, and as policy change agents.
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3.00 Credits
What does it mean to integrate spirituality into ones social work practice? What models and forms of spirituality are appropriate and meaningful today? This seminar addresses how to best define, integrate, and use spiritual practices that will uphold the integrity and authenticity of the client, community, and practitioner. Readings, discussion, case presentations, and experiential exercises are used to deepen ones comfort level with spirituality in social work practice.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar helps advance a students knowledge of clinical issues of interest. Based on subjects the class chooses, syllabus and reading assignments are developed. Case presentations are used, and frank and open discussion is encouraged. For the main assignment, students study a treatment dilemma of their own choice through review of relevant clinical literature, and by examining their own relationship to the issue. Additionally, each clinical situation is explored from the perspective of social justice.
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1.00 Credits
This interactive course gives students the opportunity to develop *Conversational Spanish skills* from the start. Social work-related vocabulary and idiomatic expressions are introduced and practiced in authentic, real-life professional situations from the first class. Please note, a verbal proficiency level test must be taken prior to starting the course and a group of students at the similar level is needed to run this class. Students may only take one Spanish class for credit during their program.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Field (446) and Social Work Practice (421) This course explores newer systematic approaches to work with groups, families, and individuals. Narrative/constructivist approaches that are often applicable to short-term work are examined. Students will also consider what it means to think of treatment as involving the co-construction of new narratives. The course incorporates experiential learning and makes use of student case material.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Assessment and Diagnosis (414) The course focuses on knowledge and skills essential for practice in health care settings including: understanding psycho-social influences on illness and the disease process; clinical analysis of problems, such as ethical dilemmas or end of life issues; the need to respond quickly in a fast moving system; knowledge in the scientific advances in health care as well as alternative therapies; intervening in multiple systems and the need to approach a situation from both macro and micro perspectives. Practice skills include rapid assessment tools, brief focused treatment, and care mapping strategies for a range of acute and chronic health issues across the life span. Course format includes students case materials, live patient interviews, and guest lecturers.
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2.00 Credits
This course is concerned with intimate partner violence with particular attention to the meaning of such violence in and for families. We will look at this subject both as social work practitioners and as people with an academic or research interest. Students will learn about current criminal justice, child protective, and health system responses to domestic violence, and will practice interviewing skills. We will also consider some of the important controversies in the field. Each student will select, study, and write about a particular topic or area.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Field (446) and Social Work Practice (421) The object of this course is to provide a working knowledge of the basic principles and specific techniques of a contemporary multi-modal approach to cognitive-behavioral therapy with consideration of its integration with other therapeutic approaches. Treatment models are presented issues including: substance abuse, anger, interpersonal relationships, stress, anxiety disorders, depression, personality disorders with an emphasis on borderline personality disorder and issues of affect regulation.
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