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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Builds knowledge about and awareness of practice with adult community groups, including self-help, social development and advocacy. Issues and policies associated with citizen development, and citizen participation activities - whether at service/program initiation, resource development or structural change levels - are analyzed. The course is aimed at identification and understanding of the problems/issues; the policies at federal, state and local levels; and the range of agencies, programs and autonomous community organizations which have a community-development orientation.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Provides content and experiences which help the student understand the impact of illness on individuals and families and the settings in which health personnel function; knowledge and skills requisite for practice are considered along with issues stemming from current health-care policies and service delivery.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. The history of child welfare, family problems as they affect child welfare, and issues and alternatives in child-care services; discussion of settings where services are provided, as well as perspectives concerning child welfare as an area of practice.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Introduces students to conceptual alternatives in mental health and acquaints them with consequences of these various conceptual approaches, encourages a scientific perspective in the mental-health field, educates students to seek new approaches to practice in the mental health field.
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4.00 Credits
This course deals with developing a better understanding of the evolution and settlement patterns, religious and social institutions, and help-seeking patterns of Asian Americans, one of the fastest growing visible minority groups in our society. The course will focus on Indian Americans and Chinese Americans, the two largest Asian American groups in Northeast Ohio. Other Asian groups, such as Filipinos, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and other Southeastern and South Asian communities will also be highlighted, with special emphasis on Asian communities in Northeast Ohio.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Reviews the etiology of the HIV-AIDS virus, populations at risk, policies affecting public education, prevention, and treatment of AIDS. Interventions with persons, significant others/families and program/policy agencies will be identified.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the foundations for ethical reasoning in practice, utilizing social work values, codes of ethics, and philosophic ethics. Case material that includes controversial issues in social work ethics, values and obligations are utilized. The distinction and relationship between practice competence and ethical competence in the profession is examined. Students learn how discipline-specific perspectives and practices interact to shape the ethical and moral issues in practice, and how to identify and respond to ethical issues that arise with diverse populations in a variety of practice settings, including health, mental health, corrections, family and child welfare.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Examination of the disease concept of alcoholism; including prevention, treatment, and recovery of the alcoholic and members of his/her family; considers questions of social policy and strategies and tactics in the field. Other forms of substance addiction are also considered.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: SWK 240. Course includes the major constitutional doctrines and issues relating to, and eliminating, criminal investigation (including the securing of physical and oral evidence) and the prosecution of crime. The history and purpose of these constitutional doctrines will be studied to enable students to understand that violations of any of the guarantees of the Bill of Rights must not be viewed as "technicalities" but as attacks on the freedom of all U.S. citizens.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Course provides a historical perspective regarding the use of mind-altering substances and views the impact(s) of use/abuse on the individual, family, and society. In addition, the course will examine various treatment modalities and the impact on vulnerable groups (such as adolescents, delinquents, elderly, and minorities).
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