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3.00 Credits
Free Elective. This course focuses initially on growth and behavior in the often overshadowed period of middle childhood, and in greater depth on the adolescent period. Change in the psychological, physical, cognitive and social domains of growth is examined and is related to changing relationships and overt behaviors. The influence of social factors is a continuing theme. Concepts like "adolescent rebellion" are questioned and re-evaluated. Connections between uneven development and social problem behavior are examined. Knowledge is salient to school social work as well as to other practice domains. Students research areas of individual interest. Free elective.
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3.00 Credits
Direct Practice Elective. This course provides a foundation for social work practice with children and adolescents. Beginning with an overview of normative child and adolescent development and psychosocial developmental theory, the course covers various methods for helping at-risk children and adolescents and their families. Emphasizing the complex interplay between children and adolescents and their social environments, consideration will be given to biological, temperamental, and developmental status; the familial/cultural context; the school context; and other aspects of the physical and social environment. Particular attention is paid to working with socially, emotionally, financially, and physically challenged and deprived children and adolescents and their families. Direct Practice Elective
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Direct Practice Elective. This course enhances the students' ability to practice social work with and on behalf of people with developmental disabilities and their families. The course provides a base of knowledge about developmental disabilities and differences, their causes and characteristics. Students learn how disabilities and learning differences impact personal, familial, educational, social, and economic dimensions for the individual, family and society, with attention to the person's special life cycle needs and characteristics. The course also emphasizes legislative, programmatic, political, economic, and theoretical formulations fundamental to service delivery.
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Direct Practice Elective. This course focuses on theory and practice of planned brief treatment in social work practice, primarily with individuals but with attention to couples, families and other groupings. The course covers the history of and different approaches to brief treatment. Topics include treatment issues such as criteria for selection of clients, understanding the importance of time in the treatment relationship, the use of history, the importance of focusing, the process of termination and other issues related to brief interventions. Particular attention will be paid to the use of brief treatment approaches in crisis situations. The course presents various methods of assessing an individual's crisis and of helping clients mobilize their strengths to utilize customary methods of coping and learn newer ways of coping.
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3.00 Credits
Direct Practice Elective. This course provides students with assessment and intervention skills for social work practice with varied family/partner configurations. The course begins with a grounding in family systems theory and proceeds to explore patterns of interaction in terms of the wide range of problems that families and partners bring to social agencies. Emphasis is given to exploring ways of supporting change in interaction patterns. Readings are augmented by videotapes of family sessions and simulations of clinical situations from students'field practice.
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3.00 Credits
Free Elective. This course focuces on major ethnic groups in America as a way of exploring cultural differences, ethnic retention, and the nature of pluralism in our society. Students examine family patterns, religion, educational institutions and other factors that transmit and maintain cultural and ethnic differences. Students define and develop the implications of these social factors for use in social work practice.
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3.00 Credits
Research Option. This course provides students with a broad range of statistical methods and applications. It introduces social work students to the use of quantitative data for planning and evaluating social programs and social policy. Course topics include conceptualization and measurement of variables and basic techniques and concepts for exploring and categorizing data, for generalizing research findings and testing hypotheses, and for statistical data processing. Students will gain experience in using a Windows-based statistical software package on personal computers. Emphasis is placed on the practical application of data to address social policy and social work practice issues. Students have the opportunity to critique the application of data analysis and presentation in technical reports and professional journals.
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3.00 Credits
Macro Practice Elective. This macro practice elective course is intended to teach graduate social work students how to use mapping as a tool for understanding, organizing, and serving communities. Students will learn how to use quantitative data and geographic information systems (GIS) within a conceptual framework focused on how the environment influences individual and group outcomes. Building on the content of the advanced macro practice curricula (SWRK708 and SWRK718), this class will use readings, discussions, and assignments to teach students how mapping can be used to assess needs and assets, develop, implement and evaluate programs,and build community.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Free Elective/Certificate in Jewish Communal Services course. Must be enrolled in Joint MSW/Jewish Communal Studies Program. Must be enrolled in Joint MSW/Jewish Communal Studies Program. This course is an overview of the sociololgy of the American Jewish Community in the context of the social history of American Jewry. Students will become familiar with the demography and social characteristics of the community as well as its social structure and institutions. The Jewish family, synagogue and communal organizations will be seen through the sociological perspective which will enhance and broaden the analysis of the familiar. Conflict between institutions and patterns of innovation will also be explored along with the educational structures necessary for the continuity of minority identity and leadership into the next generation.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Free Elective/Certificate in Jewish Communal Services course. Must be enrolled in Joint MSW/Jewish Communal Studies Program. This course is designed to give a sociological overview of the contemporary Jewish family in the context of Jewish history and tradition. The traditional Jewish family,the role of the single-parent family, dual-career families, the impact of divorce, and devising a policy to support Jewish family life within the current institutional structures and alternative ones are considered.
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