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3.00 Credits
The course will provide students with the skills and abilities to conduct clinical assessments with children and adolescents using a biopsychosocial developmental framework, specifically focusing on case formulation and diagnosis. The course will provide an overview of major diagnostic categories in child psychopathology. Attention will be given to the dynamics of development and culture, and to the interrelations among biological, psychological, and social/cultural systems. Teaching techniques include didactic resentations, case examples, videos, guest lectures, and class discussions.
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SW 598 Leadership Development in Anti-violence Work: The Susan Schechter Social Action Seminar.Co-instructors: Isa Woldeguiorguis, (Jane Doe, Inc.); Mary Gilfus, (Professor, School of Social Work). Collaboratively sponsored by the Family Violence Prevention Fund, The Susan Schechter Leadership Development Fellowship and Simmons College School of Social Work, this interdisciplinary seminar is open, to graduate students from any part of Simmons and undergraduates with consent of the instructor. We encourage those with experience and interest in the fields of domestic violence and child abuse to register. We will study the movement to end violence against women and its connections to issues of race and poverty. Students will identify emerging issues relevant to their work and develop an action project, doing some independent library and field research. Our leadership model is based on the work of Susan Schechter, a feminist pioneer in the anti-violence movement. Through the Family Violence Prevention Fund, we will have access to anetwork of national leaders in the anti-violence movement. This course meets the requirement for a social action course. This is the third year of this class, funded as a pilot for a national curriculum. For more information, visit the Family Violence Prevention Fund?s website: www.endabuse.org and www.schechterfellowship.org/, or contact the Family Violence Prevention Fund via Leiana Kinnicutt, at Leiana@endabuse. org
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3.00 Credits
This course emphasizes the larger social systems in which human behavior develops. Readings will be drawn from recent developments in social psychological thinking.
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3.00 Credits
This course offers an opportunity to think reflectively about clinical social work practice. The relationship of knowledge and action in the professions as well as some of the contemporary debates about practice are addressed. The organizing idea of modern and post-modern perspectives is used to examine clinical practice, research on practice, and teaching about practice.
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3.00 Credits
In this course a philosophical framework for social work theory and practice is developed through a comparison of modernist and postmodern ways of thinking about knowledge. The framework is then used to examine contemporary debates in social work in relation to theories about gender, approaches to trauma, and ethical dilemmas.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to enhance the student's ability to provide professional leadership in clinical social work through scholarship. Students are asked to use ideas about language, narrative and texts from literary and critical analysis; consider several varieties of written narratives; and work on developing their own authorial 'voice.' The main focus will be preparing students' own papers for publication.
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3.00 Credits
This course will cover advanced technical and applied issues of designing and implementing quantitative and qualitative research designs and methods. Specific areas addressed will include: 1) research design trajectories, 2) sampling and recruitment, 3) methods of data collection, 4) variable selection and measurement, 5) data collection, preparation, and management, 6) choice and selection of analytic and statistical models, and 7) ethical issues related to research design. Specific issues relating to research with hard to reach and marginalized populations will be discussed. Participatory action research and translation of researching findings will be discussed within the context of particular research designs.
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3.00 Credits
This course will introduce students to social, psychological, anthropological, and feminist theories that provide a framework for studying the intersection of gender and culture and how these factors influence health and mental health. We will use this framework in our study of the following health and mental health issues: . Maternal mortality and reproductive health . HIV/AIDS . Cancer . Depression . Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Students will learn how to conduct a comparative analysis of women's health and mental health by analyzing cross-national survey data from a secondary data set. Implications of the research for social work practice with women challenged by various health and mental health issues will be explored.
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3.00 Credits
This course serves as an introduction to social work research methods in the doctoral program. Objectives of the course include examination of the research process as applied to the specialized needs of social work practitioners. Emphasis is placed on formulation of researchable practice questions of interest to seminar participants and examination of quantitative and qualitative research methods and strategies appropriate to these questions.
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