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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Explores the major mental disorders from an understanding of the biological, psychological, social, and cultural determinants of mental illness. Emphasis given to the changing roles of social workers who work with people diagnosed with a mental illness. Topics include history and theories of mental illness, DSM IV classification systems, biopsychosocial model assessment which includes diagnostic interviewing, specialty topics (e.g., homelessness, poverty) and critique of conventional and emerging empirical perspectives.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the impact of trauma and abuse on adults, children, and families. Acute and long-term sequelae will be identified, emphasizing the interaction of traumatic and developmental effects. An integrative biopsychosocial intervention model for working with individuals, groups, and families will be explored through crisis and trauma, psychodynamic, constructivist, narrative, and feminist theories. Policy practice and advocacy issues, ethical and ideological issues, and current clinical, research, and policy debates in the field will be identified and discussed. The relationship of clinical narrative to contemporary social discourse about abuse and trauma will set the framework for the course, including clinical and empirical knowledge regarding effects of abuse and trauma and efficacy of treatment.
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3.00 Credits
Explores clinical social work practice with children, adolescents, and families. Emphasizes a collaborative and contextual approach that, in addition to child-focused interventions, includes work with parents, families, and groups in a variety of settings. Delineation and demonstration of specific clinical strategies and techniques with opportunities to practice and apply to field work.
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3.00 Credits
Seminar on interdisciplinary relationships among social work, psychiatry, and nursing; and on a variety of clinical, and policy topics. For students in community mental health placements and those working with individuals with severe and persistent mental illness. Jointly offered with OHSU's Department of Public Psychiatry. Enrollment is limited to 6 students per term and requires instructor approval.
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3.00 Credits
Designed to provide students with a foundation in both direct and indirect social work practice issues with clients, families and communities challenged by substance abuse and addiction. The primary goal is to assist students in further developing and integrating their social work practice frameworks with deeper understanding and skill regarding the psychodynamic, biological and ecological nature of substance abuse disorders, as well as the range of evidence-based practices available to address them.
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3.00 Credits
Mental and physical frailties experienced by older adults are examined for their implications for adaptation and intervention. Mental disorders as they are uniquely characterized in late adulthood are reviewed, with special emphasis on age appropriate assessment. Psychosocial interventions for both community and institutionalized populations will include individual, family, group, and environmental approaches.
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3.00 Credits
Introduces the student to theoretical and practical elements of social work administrative and management roles to develop and manage the conditions, processes and mechanisms that support evidence-based service delivery systems that benefit consumers, families and communities. Topics include analysis of contemporary organizational leadership task environments, internal and external assessment skills and tools, building strong coalitions and developing strong cross-sector collaborations for dynamic social problem impact and understanding theoretical underpinnings of a variety of organizational leadership approaches.
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3.00 Credits
Builds on foundation research methods and data analysis courses. Courses offered under this number present an evidence-based framework for social work practice and methods for analyzing quantitative data (e.g., multiple linear regression) and/or qualitative data (e.g., ethnography). Emphasizes application of methods to build knowledge in a specialized area relevant to a student's field of practice and/or to complete an evaluation of program(s) or practice. Emphasizes interpretation of results to inform effective social work practice in community and agency-based settings. May be repeated for credit.
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3.00 Credits
Continuation of social problem sequence. Focuses on the evaluation phase of social problem analysis. Evaluation is a set of practices and skills in an applied area of the social sciences that requires grounding in a number of theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches. It necessitates a clear formulation of questions to be answered, an awareness of stakeholders to be considered and a plan for how data will be collected, analyzed and disseminated. Additional priorities include responsiveness to the role of consumers and sensitivity to the cultural context in which research is conducted. Practicality, usefulness and accessibility emphasized. Focuses on the demands and nuances of the science and art of evaluation.
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3.00 Credits
Compares mental health policies from a global perspective, emphasizing United Nations and World Health Organization perspectives. Programs and policies from various countries are compared and contrasted with those of the U.S., and Oregon in particular.
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