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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Field (446) and Social Work Practice (421) The focus of this elective is understanding trauma: theoretically and clinically. It considers trauma in various contexts and in relation to various vulnerable populations: people at war, women, residents of violence-torn communities. Recently traumatized individuals are considered as well as those affected by earlier trauma. Students explore some of the theortical and clinical controversies in the field and are asked to apply their learning to case situations.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This seminar is organized into four modules examining violence. In each, the phenomena of violence and contexts that sustain it are explored, the literature and our own clinical and human efforts to make sense of violence examined, and skills and interventions appropriate for clinical practice learned. The intention of the seminar is to deepen student knowledge of violence relevant to social work practice and to assist student mastery of a range of clinical and systemic methods of working with violence.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course is intended to ignite and support students' interest in gerontological social work practice, and to provide a solid foundation for assessment and intervention with older adults in direct service settings. Students will develop their ability to respectfully engage a broad range of older clients, will build bio-psychosocial assessment and treatment planning skills, will learn intervention skills and approaches that will enable them to effectively intervene to address common presenting problems, will develop greater understanding of clinical/ethical issues that are specific to treatment with elders, will build specialized knowledge for practice, and will increase their familiarity with various gerontological social work practice roles and settings. Each class will include time for informal case presentations, allowing students to share their work and its challenges and to take part in collective problem solving in order to build their repertoire of practice skills. They will be expected to engage with older adults and geriatric practitioners and to conduct independent investigations regarding common presenting problems and treatment options. Active participation in class is encouraged: students will regularly present to each other regarding what they are learning through their independent investigations and engage in experiential learning such as role play.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Health management for older adults is a major issue in todays society. Policy, economics, organizational structure, and clinical care are intermingled in responding on societal, institutional, and clinical levels. This course challenges creative and inquisitive students to approach the health of older adults by addressing these complex issues. It will focus on effective outcomes and understanding the range of roles professionals may adopt, as well as providing the knowledge base and skill set needed for interdisciplinary professional practice. Students and faculty from various disciplines will use a case study approach as the primary teaching model. The course is taught at the Harvard Medical Education Building on Longwood Avenue.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Research (441), concurrent Field (447) This course prepares students in basic principles of practice and program evaluation and their application to social work practice in agency settings. Using their agency settings as laboratories, students learn the major approaches to evaluation (needs assessment, process, and outcome) with attention to the struggles, tensions, and ambiguities related to current evaluation models and agency demands for evaluation.
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2.00 - 3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Social Policy (401), HBSE (411) The focus of this one-semester course is to discuss relevant theories and strategies of social and political action that promote social justice within organizations and the larger community. Where advocacy assumes that people have rights, and those rights are enforceable, social action involves a coordinated and sustained effort to achieve institutional change to meet a need, solve a social problem or issue, or correct an injustice to improve and/or enhance the quality of human life and individual well-being (Baker, et al.). In this course students will gain understanding of policy practice theory and skills in regard to social, economic, political, and organizational systems, and will use this knowledge to then influence, formulate, and advocate for policy changes to meet the needs of clients. Students will develop skills necessary to create change at the client, agency, community, and/or societal level that is founded on the principles and ideals of social, distributive, political, and economic justice. Students will have the option of choosing a topic of interest to them that they identify as being a social problem and/or issue needing correction in a particular area (for example, mental health, immigration, disability, education, long-term care, health care, and LGBTQ issues, etc). This course meets the requirement for a social action course.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Field (446) and Social Work Practice (421) An advanced seminar addressing psychological, sociological, legal, and ecological aspects of family violence in its varied forms, especially in the sexual, physical, and psychological abuse of children and adolescents, as well as wife battering. Theories of and research on intrafamilial and extrafamilial abuse are discussed. Counter-transference phenomena are identified and alternate forms of treatment are explored.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar is designed for students in placement at or considering a career in the criminal justice system. Juvenile delinquency and adult sociopathy will be given equal focus. Teaching methods will include lecture, videos and case presentations, and will explore both the characterological issues of people who commit crimes as well as effective interventions. The work of forensic social work experts, specifically Jim Garbarino, James Gilligan, and Reid Meloy, will be examined and discussed.
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0.00 Credits
This course exposes students to the principles and skills necessary for effective grant writing. Course topics include the identifying the priorities of funders, developing ideas for a winning proposal, and writing succinctly and clearly. Each student prepares a grant proposal for the final course assignment.
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0.00 Credits
Raising unrestricted dollars for agency budgets is a crucial skill in today's practice world. Focusing on the practitioner as fundraiser, students will learn about social entrepreneurship and the key factors for making fundraising decision.
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