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Direct Practice Elective. This course addresses intervention approaches used in social work practice with individuals, families, and groups who misuse addictive substances themselves or are affected by another's misuse. Students learn about addictive substances, models of intervention, how to engage and assess clients, and how to intervene and evaluate the effectiveness of their interventions. The course incorporates theory and research findings on various strategies of intervention. DIRECT PRACTICE ELECTIVE
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FREE ELECTIVE. This course familiarizes students with mental health and mental disorders within the context of the life cycle, viewed from a biopsychosocial perspective. Prevalent categories of psychiatric disorders are considered with respect to their differentiating charateristics, explanatory theories, and relevance for social work practice, according to the DSM and other diagnostic tools. The course includes biological information and addresses the impact of race, ethnicity, social class, age, gender, and other sociocultural variables on diagnostic processes. Free Elective
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Clinical Practice Elective. This course strives to seek a balance in exploring the universalistic as well as the pluralistic in relationship to spirituality. Some pluralistic religious and/or spiritual traditions are studied as they exemplify commitments of spirituality and as they intersect with a more universalistic spirituality. The course considers how spiritual and religious systems are related to diversity, including gender, social class, ethnicity and culture, and sexual orientation. Clinical Practice Elective
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3.00 Credits
Direct and Macro Practice Elective. This course builds on social work knowledge, values, and skills gained in foundation practice courses and links them to the roles and functions of social workers as supervisors and managers in human service organizations. Course focus is on providing students with an overview of basic supervisory and human resource development concepts so they may be better prepared as professional social workers to enter agencies and provide direct reports (supervisees) with meaningful and appropriate direction, support, and motivation. DIRECT AND MACRO PRACTICE ELECTIVE
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May be taken by undergraduate juniors and seniors. Permit of the instructor is necessary. Contact the registrar, Nancy Rodgers, Room B-22, School of Social Work, Caster Building. FREE ELECTIVE. This course explores how and when organizational change is possible. It is based on two bodies of thought:(1)the behavior of individuals within groups and the behavior of groups within organizations, and (2) the ways conflicts emerge and develop a "life of their own"within human systems. The dilemmas associated with changing human systems are investigated using a paradoxical lens, spotlighting counterintuitive ideas such as "to change, preserve the status quo," and "to grow, cutback." The effectiveness of the change strategies adopted by the "powerful," "the powerless," and those caught "in the middle" is examined. FREE ELECTIVE
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FREE ELECTIVE. This course uses works of fiction that pertain to a specific social issue in order to examine the effect these issues have in human terms on the individual, the family, and the community. Through appreciation of the human condition as portrayed in literature, students learn to frame issues more precisely and present arguments in compelling and convincing ways, thus enhancing the role of social worker as advocate for policy change. FREE ELECTIVE
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May be taken by undergraduate juniors and seniors. Permit of the instructor is necessary, Contact the registrar, Nancy Rodgers, Room B-22, School of Social Work, Caster Building. Macro Practice Elective. This course examines the economic problems of older people and an aging society. Specifically, it examines both individual and family aging, and discusses their relevance to the financial aspects of the "graying of America." It also (1) analyzes the basic elements of retirement income security in America, including Social security, employer pensions, and Medicare, as well as health and long term care costs, and (2) addresses issues of public responsibility versus individual responsibility for financial security. Finally, the course reviews and evaluates connections among financial and gerontological concepts, public policy issues, and social work practice. MACRO PRACTICE ELECTIVE
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3.00 Credits
FREE ELECTIVE. This course helps students understand the ideal and real functions of the law and recognize the influence of behaviors on the law, and of the law on behaviors. Students have the opportunity to evaluate strengths and limitations of law for empowering historically disadvantaged populations.
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3.00 Credits
FREE ELECTIVE. This course is concerned with the influence of idealogy, values,and ethics on the development of social welfare policies and social work practice. Particular emphasis is given to the impact of such concepts as freedom,equality, and justice on the creation and implementation of social service programs and on the underlying value structure of alternative modes of social intervention. The course also provides students with a framework to understand and apply ethical concepts such as confidentiality, self-determination, truth-telling, paternalism, conflict of duties, and "whistleblowing," in the daily realities of professional practice. These concepts and their relationship to terminal values are taught through the analysis of cases from the changing environment of policy and practice in the United States.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite(s): SWRK 715. (PREREQUISITE SWRK 7I5)- RESEARCH OPTION. This course introduces students to theoretical and practical aspects of social service program evaluation. Students learn about the design and emplementation of all phases of an evaluation, from needs assessment to analysis of findings. Skills such as survey construction and budgeting are introduced. Intensive analysis of existing studies illustrates how evaluations are designed and how findings affect social programs and policy.
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