Catalog Description

This generalist course develops an evolving understanding of the history, mission, values, and ethics of the social work profession with an emphasis on justice.

Purpose

This course focuses on setting a justice-oriented framework and strengthening students’ preparation for learning throughout GCSW’s MSW curriculum.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Explicate the history, mission, core values and ethics of the social work profession.
2. Identify and discuss the dilemmas of the social work profession and professionalism as they relate to the pursuit of social, racial, political, and economic justice.
3. Identify the role of evidence and research in guiding ethical social work practice and education.
4. Explore and describe the social work profession in various areas of practice in the current context.

Catalog Description

Supervised generalist practicum in an approved setting with a qualified practicum instructor; requires a minimum of 200 clock hours.

Purpose

In this course, students begin to demonstrate the integration and application of generalist practice competencies necessary for social work practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following generalist objectives:

1. Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior.
2. Advance Human Rights, and Social, Racial and Economic and Environmental Justice.
3. Engage in Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ADEI) in Practice.
4. Engage in Practice-informed Research and Research-informed Practice.
5. Engage in Policy Practice.
6. Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
7. Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
8. Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
9. Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.

Catalog Description

Supervised practicum in an approved setting with a qualified practicum instructor; requires a minimum of 200 clock hours.

Purpose

In this course students continue to demonstrate the integration and application of generalist practice competencies necessary for social work practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate the following generalist objectives:

1. Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior.
2. Advance Human Rights, and Social, Racial and Economic and Environmental Justice.
3. Engage in Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ADEI) in Practice.
4. Engage in Practice-informed Research and Research-informed Practice.
5. Engage in Policy Practice.
6. Engage with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
7. Assess Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
8. Intervene with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.
9. Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, Groups, Organizations, and Communities.

Catalog Description

This generalist course develops knowledge and skills to foster students’ understanding of research as an integral tool to inform practice that promotes social, racial, economic, and political justice.

Purpose

This course focuses on learning the fundamentals of qualitative and quantitative research designs and methods useful in evaluating social work practice with an emphasis on critically appraising research to inform micro and macro practice decisions.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Apply critical and analytical thinking to the process of scientific inquiry.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of research terminology and basic research methodology.
3. Identify a social work-related question to study scientifically.
4. Conduct a beginning literature review in relation to the question proposed for study.
5. Identify sources for gathering evidence to support practice and describe the strengths and limitations of different sources.
6. Identify ethical, culturally informed, antiracist, and anti-oppressive strategies that address inherent biases for use in qualitative and quantitative research methods.
7. Discuss ways in which experience and information from practice, policy, and human behavior can be used to inform research.
8. Present findings from research and describe the ways research informs and improves policy, practice, and programs.

Catalog Description

This generalist course develops knowledge and skills for generalist social work practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities across various settings.

Purpose

This course focuses on the development and application of skills for generalist social work practice in a range of practice settings and with various client types including, but not limited to individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Apply a conscious and deliberate use of self-awareness.
2. Critically examine the regulation of the social work profession, codes of ethics, sources of knowledge informing practice, and professional roles.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the influence of context and intersectionality on social work practice and use of communication skills.
4. Define broadly accepted social work practice skills and apply them in the helping process with individuals, families, groups, organizations and communities.
5. Demonstrate various elements and formats for notetaking and documentation.
6. Identify the stages of the helping process, including engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation with various client types.
7. Relate practicum experiences to social work practice skills.

Catalog Description

This generalist course develops knowledge and skills to examine the social, political, historical, and economic contexts impacting social welfare policy.

Purpose

This course focuses on policy and systemic contexts and how they shape the social environment.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Explain how social, political, and economic contexts affect the opportunities and limitations of social work practice.
2. Explain how various theoretical perspectives inform understanding of social, economic, and political justice, oppression, empowerment, and social change.
3. Describe how social policy may be used to advance or hinder the pursuit of social, economic, racial, and political justice.
4. Examine changing values toward social policy and how they are affected by political, economic, environmental, and social contexts.
5. Critically explain how social values, ethics, ideology, and social policy have affected individuals and groups that have been targets of discrimination.
6. Recognize selected social and political theories and their application to social policy.
7. Describe how local, state and federal political processes influence social policy and program development.
8. Explain how social work professionals can affect the formulation, implementation and modification of social policies and service delivery systems.
9. Demonstrate critical thinking skills, using theory as a lens, to understand policy development, political behavior, and social service delivery systems.

Catalog Description

TThis generalist course develops knowledge and skills to apply human behavior and development theories in the context of the social environment, including how age, race, ethnicity, gender, and other variables impact behavior and development.

Purpose

This course focuses on human behavior across different life stages and interactions with the social environment.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of how diversity and difference shape client experiences of oppression, marginalization, alienation, privilege, and power.
2. Critically examine the value and ethical issues as they relate to social work practice with vulnerable populations.
3. Express the importance of self-awareness and culturally responsive approaches to practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities.
4. Apply selected human behavior and human development theories to different client populations.
5. Demonstrate critical thinking skills, using theory as a lens, to understand human development and human behavior.
6. Assess how the changing forms and functions of families and social institutions affect individual and societal well-being.
7. Examine the influences and effects of diversity and difference on human development.

Catalog Description

The course will examine a set of intersectional social justice issues, centering race, that impact our daily lives in differential ways and inform the prejudices we hold, and that exist, within larger structures of power.

Purpose

The purpose of this course is to catalyze and advance students' critical consciousness of the innate power imbalances woven into social systems that proliferate webs of oppression and obstruct an equitable and just society.

The course will examine a set of intersectional social justice issues, centering race, that impact our daily lives in differential ways and inform the prejudices we hold, and that exist, within larger structures of power.

The course will build students’ capacity to perceive social justice issues as historic and systemic; analyzing our personal and professional roles in systems of oppression; develop lifelong praxis to confront oppression internally and on the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Translate Friere’s framework of Critical Consciousness to their own learning journey.
2. Recognize how power is embedded within social structures and how power operates.
3. Explain what is meant by race and provide examples of how race is used as a base for oppression.
4. Recognize what is meant by intersectionality and describe an intersectional framework for oppression.
5. Discuss the complexity of intersectional issues and examine how they are used to maintain and enforce systems of oppression in society.
6. Recognize and describe the ways by which forms of social oppression are both historic and systemic.
7. Differentiate how one’s own intersectional identity is oppressed by, and benefits from society’s hierarchies of normality.
8. Examine and debate the role of social work in challenging and maintaining systems of oppression.
9. Formulate and implement a lifelong anti-oppressive practice strategy, that includes processes to evaluate and revise said strategy, to confront systems of oppression internally; and on the micro, mezzo, and macro levels.

Catalog Description

Provides skills of policy analysis for assessing U.S. social policies, the impact of policy on individuals and communities, and comparative social policies.

Purpose

This course is the required advanced social policy course. The course examines models of policy development and applies them to current issues in social welfare. It emphasizes frameworks for policy analysis. It provides knowledge of social welfare systems and policies, the impact of policy on clients and communities, and the skills of policy analysis as a means to achieving social, racial, economic, and political justice for oppressed groups. A comparative perspective is included.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Delineate skills in formulating, implementing and evaluating social policies and programs.
2. Demonstrate social policy analysis skills, with attention to analysis of policy context, content, consequences, and impacts.
3. Contrast philosophies and approaches to social policy across distinct cultural contexts.
4. Describe how political and policy-making processes at each level of government influence policy and program development.
5. Demonstrate ways in which social work professionals can use policy analysis to affect the formulation, implementation and modification of social policies and service delivery systems.
6. Demonstrate an understanding of how social policy formulation and program development may exclude oppressed groups from participation, and how full participation can be achieved.
7. Demonstrate an understanding of how social policy may be used to advance or hinder the pursuit of social, racial, economic, and political justice.
8. Discern between sources of information, utilizing critical thinking skills to assess whether sources are reputable, credible, and timely.
9. Demonstrate critical thinking skills in assessing social problems, developing potential social policy and program options, and evaluating current social policies.

Catalog Description

Supervised advanced macro practice practicum in an approved setting with a qualified practicum instructor; requires a minimum of 250 clock hours.

Purpose

In this course students demonstrate the integration and application of advanced practice competencies necessary for professional macro social work practice with organizations and communities.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate advanced competence in the following objectives:

1. Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior.
2. Advance Human Rights, and Social Racial and Economic and Environmental Justice.
3. Engage in Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ADEI) in Practice.
4. Engage in Practice-informed Research and Research-informed Practice.
5. Engage in Policy Practice.
6. Engage with Organizations and Communities.
7. Assess Organizations and Communities.
8. Intervene with Organizations and Communities.
9. Evaluate Practice with Organizations and Communities.

Catalog Description

Supervised advanced macro practice practicum in an approved setting with a qualified practicum instructor; requires a minimum of 250 clock hours.

Purpose

In this course students continue to demonstrate the integration and application of advanced practice competencies necessary for professional macro social work practice with organizations and communities.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate advanced competence in the following objectives:

1. Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior.
2. Advance Human Rights, and Social, Racial and Economic and Environmental Justice.
3. Engage Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ADEI) in Practice.
4. Engage in Practice-informed Research and Research-informed Practice.
5. Engage in Policy Practice.
6. Engage with Organizations and Communities.
7. Assess Organizations and Communities.
8. Intervene with Organizations and Communities.
9. Evaluate Practice with Organizations and Communities.

Catalog Description

Conducting program planning and evaluation; techniques in developing, monitoring and evaluating social service programs.

Purpose

This advanced research course prepares students to conduct program planning and evaluation in macro settings. It focuses on designing programs and evaluation processes relevant to problem identification and the practice context.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Utilize reflection and self-awareness to manage personal bias, power, and privilege in program planning and evaluation processes.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of evaluation processes and distinguish between different types and methods.
3. Use and translate relevant sources of information to guide program and evaluation design.
4. Demonstrate skills in planning programs and designing evaluation processes relevant to the practice context, including identifying relevant theoretical frameworks, clear identification of measures, data collection, and data analysis processes.
5. Explain evaluation processes in different macro contexts, with attention to systemic factors internal and external to the agency context that promote and impede change.
6. Identify ethical issues in conducting program planning and evaluation in and with communities.
7. Identify the role of program planning and evaluation in advancing human rights and social, racial, economic, and political justice.

Catalog Description

Develop knowledge and skills necessary for effective social work practice in organizations.

Purpose

This course is designed to introduce skills required for effective social work practice within organizations. This course prepares students to understand how organizational, structural, and situational contexts impact the human service industry and identify opportunities for change-making.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Utilize reflection and self-awareness to understand and manage personal bias, power, and privilege and consider conflicting ethics, interests, and values in organizational practice.
2. Describe core concepts of developing, leading and managing an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workforce, and challenges to these concepts.
3. Demonstrate understanding of theoretically informed approaches to change management, consensus building, organizational and interpersonal alliances, and anti-oppressive social work practice in organizations.
4. Apply analytical methods to assess internal and external contexts for change, including climate, capacity, motivation, and resistance.
5. Design communication and engagement strategies that demonstrate an understanding of varied community, organization, and individual audiences.
6. Identify the role of social work practice in organizations in advancing human rights, human security, and social, racial, economic, and political justice.

Catalog Description

Provides an understanding of political systems and teaches the skills to affect policy in the legislative as well as administrative arenas.

Purpose

This course provides students with an understanding of the political processes and systems that affect their practice. The course examines theory and skills effective in influencing, altering, and monitoring social policy.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate professional use-of-self in framing advocacy communications and receiving feedback.
2. Apply analytical methods to assess internal and external contexts for change, including dimensions of power and decision-making at the organizational, community, state and national levels.
3. Demonstrate strategic planning skills while developing and evaluating advocacy strategies that are grounded in assessments of internal and external contexts for change.
4. Critically apply ethical decision-making frameworks to practice within political systems.
5. Design oral and written advocacy communications that demonstrate an understanding of varied political audiences.
6. Identify political barriers to advancing human rights and social, racial, economic, and political justice, and develop strategies to challenge them.

Catalog Description

Develop knowledge and skills for social work leadership.

Purpose

This course is designed to build knowledge and skills focused on multiple approaches to social work leadership. The course prepares students for leadership practice in a variety of settings.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Utilize reflection and self-awareness to understand and manage personal bias, power, and privilege and consider conflicting ethics, interests and values in leadership practice.
2. Critically apply ethical decision-making frameworks to social work leadership.
3. Identify, analyze, and critique leadership frameworks and style.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of dimensions of power and power dynamics within interpersonal, community and organizational contexts.
5. Demonstrate inclusive leadership skills for promoting progressive social change and facilitating individual, community and organizational empowerment.
6. Utilize self-assessment to identify and evaluate personal leadership style, and strategies for adapting this style as appropriate to the context.
7. Identify the role of social work leadership in advancing human rights and social, racial, economic, and political justice.

Catalog Description

Building knowledge and skills for social work practice with communities.

Purpose

This course is designed to introduce skills required for effective social work practice in communities. This course prepares students to practice in partnership with communities to advance human rights and social, racial, economic, and political justice.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Utilize reflection and self-awareness to understand and manage personal bias, power, and privilege and consider conflicting interests and values in community practice.
2. Identify ideological assumptions underlying community practice strategies with attention to inequities, dimensions of power, and the social, racial, economic, and political climate.
3. Identify and articulate models of community practice.
4. Assess community context, including community strengths, formal and informal power dynamics, and internal and external resources.
5. Consider different types of evidence, rationales and arguments and how to tailor them to various stakeholder audiences.
6. Design strategies in partnership with communities, through methods such as consensus building, coalition-building, and interprofessional collaboration, in order to develop, refine, and implement interventions.
7. Describe processes to evaluate the impact of community practice, including potential measures, data collection strategies, and inclusive data analysis processes.
8. Identify the role of social work practice in communities in advancing human rights and social, racial, economic, and political justice.

Catalog Description

Supervised advanced clinical practice practicum in approved setting with a qualified practicum instructor; requires a minimum of 250 clock hours.

Purpose

In this course students demonstrate the integration and application of advanced practice competencies necessary for professional clinical social work practice with individuals, families and groups.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate advanced competence in the following objectives:

1. Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior.
2. Advance Human Rights, and Social, Racial and Economic and Environmental Justice.
3. Engage in Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ADEI) in Practice.
4. Engage in Practice-informed Research and Research-informed Practice.
5. Engage in Policy Practice.
6. Engage with Individuals, Families, and Groups.
7. Assess Individuals, Families, and Groups.
8. Intervene with Individuals, Families, and Groups.
9. Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, and Groups.

Catalog Description

Supervised advanced clinical practice practicum in an approved setting with a qualified practicum instructor; requires a minimum of 250 clock hours.

Purpose

In this course students continue to demonstrate the integration and application of advanced practice competencies necessary for professional clinical social work practice with individuals, families and groups.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to demonstrate advanced competence in the following objectives:

1. Demonstrate Ethical and Professional Behavior.
2. Advance Human Rights, and Social, Racial and Economic and Environmental Justice.
3. Engage in Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (ADEI) in Practice.
4. Engage in Practice-informed Research and Research-informed Practice.
5. Engage in Policy Practice.
6. Engage with Individuals, Families, and Groups.
7. Assess Individuals, Families, and Groups.
8. Intervene with Individuals, Families, and Groups.
9. Evaluate Practice with Individuals, Families, and Groups.

Catalog Description

This course will present a theoretical analysis of clinical practice with individuals; integrating this analysis with social work practice through an anti-oppressive and racial justice framework.

Purpose

This course is designed to develop students’ critical understanding and skills in clinical social work practice with individuals. Along with theories and knowledge of individual dynamics, skills for engaging, assessing, intervening, and facilitating will be introduced. This course will present a critical analysis of theory, knowledge, and skills for practice with individuals through a lens of anti-oppressive and racial justice frameworks.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Critically analyze the history of social work clinical practice with individuals.
2. Explore diverse perspectives of knowledge, theory, values and expertise in clinical practice, utilizing various research methods.
3. Describe culturally and contextually diverse narratives about health, healing and wellness.
4. Explain the responsibility of clinical social workers to consider and adapt practice considering the client’s sociocultural context.
5. Utilize a multiple theoretical orientation of the most current social science theories and engage in assessment, intervention, and evaluation with individuals.
6. Apply inclusive engagement, assessment, and intervention strategies with diverse clients with empathy and cultural humility, based on an intersectional analysis of systems of power, privilege, and oppression in interpersonal practice settings.

Catalog Description

This course is designed to deepen students' understanding of diagnosis as a component of clinical practice, one that should be informed by the cultural, historical, philosophical, and empirical understanding of the client's needs and the available diagnostic tools.

Purpose

The purpose of the course is to teach clinical social work students how to render diagnosis responsibly, understanding the role of case formulation, contextual understanding, critical analysis and self-awareness in making clinical decisions. The course encourages students to engage in the conscientious use of various diagnostic tools-decentering the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), resources, and processes to better serve clients.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate understanding of perspectives that overlay and contextualize clinical practice.
2. Describe approaches to engagement and gathering information to formulate intervention.
3. Explain the history of classification systems of mental functioning and mental disorders; as well as critically understanding both the strengths and limitations of these classification systems.
4. Describe exploration and critical analysis of diagnosis as a pre-cursor for practice.
5. Describe adaptations and considerations based on developmental stages.
6. Engage in information gathering and diagnosis as a framework for further practice.
7. Critically analyze contextual impacts to the process of diagnosis and utilize diagnostic tools.
8. Utilize clinical language to support interdisciplinary and professional collaboration.

Catalog Description

This is a concept-based, student-directed course designed for students to facilitate their own professional learning through collaborative and creative projects while engaging in in-depth study of ideas and skills related to their unique practice interests.

Purpose

“My classes didn’t cover this.” “I wish I had time to learn more about that.” “There must be better ways to serve clients.” Clinical social work students are challenged to practice in unique settings that often present dynamic demands, and as graduates, they often are charged with bolstering their own professional capacity as well as their colleagues’. This course provides social work students opportunities for guided, applied, critical inquiry about interventions, theories, and practice approaches that are not typically considered in the extant curriculum. During the course, students are presented with a set of concepts (i.e., freedom, leadership, resistance, adapting, creativity, justice, welfare, judgement, help, safety, tradition, empowerment, community, possibility, solidarity) transcending practice settings, are essential to practice and yet, remain unsettled considerations in the social work profession.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Describe key considerations for designing, adopting, or adapting social work interventions.
2. Identify resources that offer professional learning opportunities related to an identified area of interest.
3. Explain how abolitionist frameworks provide opportunities to re-envision and promote social justice and well-being.
4. Recognize that cultural traditions, lived experiences, and creative practices function as efficacious practice approaches.
5. Describe the importance of deliberately integrating the core values of the profession, theory and ethics into practice.
6. Explain the importance of professional development as well as peer consultation and feedback.
7. Critically examine select interventions, policies, and service approaches through an anti-racist, culturally affirming lens.

Catalog Description

This course will present a theoretical analysis of family functioning; integrating this analysis with social work practice through an anti-oppressive and racial justice framework.

Purpose

This course is designed to develop students’ critical understanding and skills in clinical social work practice with families. Along with theories and knowledge of family structures; tools for engaging, assessing, and intervening with families through an anti-racist framework will be introduced. The most current social science theories will be employed in guiding family assessment and intervention. This course will cover all stages of the helping process with families (i.e. engagement, assessment, planning, intervention, evaluation, and termination).

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify and integrate assessment frameworks that are family-centered and consider the influence of racist and oppressive systems.
2. Know ways to demonstrate an appreciation for cultural diversity when establishing a therapeutic relationship with family members.
3. Critically analyze the history of practice with families and explore diverse perspectives of knowledge, theory, values and expertise in clinical practice with families.
4. Describe how to apply a culturally humble approach to assessment, goal setting and treatment planning with families; remaining attuned to the complex realities of family life.
5. Utilize a multiple theoretical orientation of the most current social science theories and engage in family systems assessment, intervention, and evaluation.
6. Identify and integrate family-centered intervention skills that reflect a commitment to the principles of racial justice.
7. Apply outcome measures that are determined by agreed upon goals in order to evaluate the effects of family-centered interventions.

Catalog Description

This course will present a theoretical analysis of group dynamics, integrating this analysis with social work practice through an anti-oppressive and racial justice framework.

Purpose

This course is designed to develop students’ critical understanding and skills in social work clinical practice with groups. Along with theories and knowledge of group dynamics, skills for engaging, assessing, intervening, and facilitating will be introduced. This course will present a critical analysis of theory, knowledge, and skills for group practice through a mindful lens of anti-oppressive and racial justice frameworks.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Critically analyze the history of group practice and explore diverse perspectives of knowledge, theory, values and expertise in group practice.
2. Describe how to research evidence and knowledge to inform formation, organization, and implementation of group structures and skills.
3. Describe specific ways an anti-racist framework and commitment to justice shape the formation and implementation of knowledge and skills in group practice.
4. Critically analyze the process for defining the role of group organizers and facilitators, specifically the impact on power and power inequity in social work practice with groups and how relationships impact the helping process.
5. Analyze the impact of class, gender, accessibility, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, culture, oppression, worldview, and culture on the interactional processes within a group.
6. Review and analyze facilitation, formulation, and intervention strategies from diverse perspectives.
7. Formulate and utilize a clinical assessment of the group and the group members’ functioning by applying key concepts and principles of interpersonal dynamics and group processes.
8. Formulate a diagnostic summary of group processes at different phases of the group’s development and analyze how this can be used to facilitate the group process.
9. Identify and apply skills to facilitate dynamics of group engagement from various theoretical frameworks.
10. Utilize evaluation to assess outcomes, facilitation, and inform the adaptation of interventions and formation of groups.

Catalog Description

This course examines theories, skills, and methods for effective planning and managing in human services organizations.

Purpose

In this course, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the scope and operations of nonprofit organizations, with specific emphasis on those that provide human services. Special attention is given to the principal areas of organizational structure, program implementation, and administration. The course is designed to be relevant to the students’ specific areas of professional and academic interest. The course will also focus on how the core values of the social work profession are integrated into the conceptualization and implementation of services provided by human service organizations.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Describe the general structure of nonprofit human service organizations and the division of responsibilities among their stakeholders.
2. Describe the challenges and opportunities faced by nonprofit human service organizations.
3. Apply academic theories and concepts of nonprofit management to specific organizations.
4. Articulate the impact of education and advocacy initiatives on service delivery, with specific attention to addressing the needs of traditionally underserved populations.

Catalog Description

This course provides an introduction to the diverse roles, responsibilities, knowledge, and skills of social workers in health care settings.

Purpose

This elective course provides students with an introduction to the diverse roles, responsibilities, knowledge, and skills of social workers in health care settings. Emphasis is placed on understanding historic, current, and anticipated conditions shaping the role of healthcare social workers, the current healthcare system, social determinants of health and health disparities, psychosocial consequences of illness, skills and competencies, as well as ethical, cultural, and professional considerations. Students will be provided with the opportunity to gain understanding of the roles and responsibilities of social workers in health care settings through the examination of bio-psychosocial spiritual assessment, theoretical foundations of healthcare social work practice, inter-professional teams, family conferencing, case management, and discharge planning in general and in selected areas of practice in healthcare. Examination of personal values and experiences will facilitate increased self-awareness about ethical dilemmas.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify and explore roles, responsibilities, and skills of social workers in health care settings.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of bio-psychosocial and spiritual challenges faced by individuals and families in relation to illness and health care settings.
3. Critically analyze and discuss the interrelationship between environmental, social, economic, and cultural factors and how they relate to health, health disparities, and the individual’s experience in health care settings.
4. Demonstrate knowledge of the professionalism required in health care settings and the culture of the agency.
5. Develop proficiency in basic medical terminology.
6. Demonstrate a reflective awareness of the practitioner’s experience of health and illness and its relation with values and ethics of the profession.

Catalog Description

This course critically analyzes the etiologies, effects, clinical assessment and treatment strategies of child abuse and neglect.

Purpose

This course provides knowledge about the etiologies and effects of child maltreatment, assessment, and treatment strategies. It includes content on practice skills related to child maltreatment, family preservation, substitute care, and permanency planning. Child physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, psychological maltreatment, and the consequences of maltreatment across childhood, adolescence and adulthood are addressed.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Describe the definitions, history and theories of child maltreatment.
2. Identify the range of services available in child welfare, including gaps in current services.
3. Analyze the relationship between the stages of child development and child maltreatment.
4. Identify and assess the characteristics and dynamics of various forms of child maltreatment, including risk and protective factors, and their corresponding interventions for children and families.
5. Evaluate the social worker role and identify techniques for practice with resistant and non-voluntary clients.
6. Examine the effects of family structure, race and ethnicity, gender, social class, gender and sexual orientation on families and children, and apply this knowledge to practice.
7. Design assessment and intervention with children and adults experiencing separation as a result of child abuse and neglect, family reunification, or kinship care.
8. Demonstrate the ability to utilize various systems and evaluate practice techniques to intervene with families who have experienced child maltreatment.

Catalog Description

This course analyzes the social, cultural and political issues that shape and define mental health, mental illness, and public mental health policy.

Purpose

This course is an analysis of the social, cultural and political issues that shape and define mental health, mental illness, substance abuse/public mental health policy and practice.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Assess the role that stigma plays in influencing public opinion, self- perception, service delivery and public mental health policy.
2. Analyze the theories explaining mental illness, the influence of culture, race, gender, age and socioeconomic status in shaping public mental health policy.
3. Trace the history of public mental health policy and practice concerning persons with mental illness and substance abuse.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of evidence-based research and practice in co-morbid issues.
5. Analyze disparities in mental health service utilization among ethnic populations, including the issues of finance, managed care, privatization, and indigence.
6. Describe the role of the justice system in treating and protecting the civil rights of persons with severe and persistent mental illness and identify major court rulings that have shaped service delivery.
7. Explain the impact of emerging technologies in social work practice specific to mental health.
8. Discuss the importance of lived experience and peer focused recovery and treatment.
9. Discuss the role of advocacy and the importance of social justice in social work practice.

Catalog Description

This course provides theoretical content and empirically supported knowledge to develop evidence-based clinical skills in the risk identification, assessment, and treatment of suicide behavior across the life spectrum and within the larger social, racial, economic environment.

Purpose

As most clinical social workers will encounter suicidal clients more than once in their careers, this course provides the fundamental knowledge needed to conduct an evidence-based suicide risk assessment with clients and to utilize evidence-based practices targeting suicidal behavior. This course will prepare social work practitioners to assess and manage clinical risks associated with suicidal behavior as well as expose them to the most recent empirical research advances in treating suicidal behavior.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Describe the incidence and prevalence of various suicidal behaviors in demographic and diagnostic groups.
2. Identify ethical considerations and implications related to suicidality.
3. Explain the significance of culture, race, and ethnicity on suicidality.
4. Discuss religious/spiritual influences on suicidality.
5. Explain risk, identification, and assessment of suicidal behaviors across the lifecycle (children/adolescents, adults, older adults) and with diverse populations.
6. Apply evidence-based treatment interventions for suicidality, including Crisis management, Motivational Interviewing (MI); Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), and Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT).

Catalog Description

A study of issues focusing on human rights and social justice issues affecting women in selected global regions. Items to be examined may include 1) female global workers such as migrant domestic workers, 2) acid attacks on women, 3) girl child marriage, and 4) honor killings of women, but are subject to change. The history and development of these issues, policy instruments to address these issues, current practice and policy solutions, as well as future possibilities for resolution, will be explored. Students will be actively involved and engaged in targeted responses to these issues.

Purpose

This course will build a practical understanding of human rights and social justice issues impacting women in selected global regions. This course provides an opportunity for and encourages students to consider the issues affecting struggling populations and human diversity and also allows for a self-assessment of cultural bias and awareness. Students are encouraged to formulate and examine intervention and research ideas related to services to affected peoples.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate an awareness of current human rights issues impacting women in selected global regions.
2. Assess their own attitudes and cultural bias that may affect their social work practice with cross-cultural populations.
3. Identify international policy instruments impacting women globally.
4. Describe how social conditions, policies, and programs of selected countries impact women.
5. Describe, analyze, and evaluate policy responses to human rights issues for women in selected global regions.
6. Recommend interventions related to human rights issues at various levels.

Catalog Description

PThis course examines methods and skills for building collaborative alliance with consumer/ community systems to increase access to and control of needed resources. Emancipatory interventions and multicultural practice are emphasized.

Purpose

The intent of this course is to provide a foundation for students to develop self- reflective empowerment practice skills in working with others different from themselves.
The first foundation of the course lies in the ability to actively be aware of one’s own thoughts, emotions, and actions to create a positive empowering environment. The course emphasizes facilitating one’s own and others’ empowerment through conscious use of self and modeling.
The second foundation lies in the ability to understand the nature and types of power and to analyze power relationships in specific situations. The course emphasizes facilitating one’s own and others’ ability to think and act politically to effect change in group situations.
The course is heavily grounded in theory and research on how people and political realities change.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate advanced knowledge of the history, theory, and politics of an empowerment approach to individual and social change.
2. Identify and implement emancipatory intervention skills that promote personal, interpersonal and collective power.
3. Use a model of collaborative practice skills to further involve and give a more equal share of power to clients and constituents of different gender, class, race, and sexual or affectional preferences, especially minorities of color, women, gay and lesbian persons, and those most economically disadvantaged.
4. Demonstrate advanced skills in working effectively with diverse constituencies and planning multicultural interventions.
5. Identify power and reconceptualize it in terms of oppressed groups, in order to help people, organizations, and communities utilize it effectively.
6. Identify institutional and community practices that disempower, and develop strategies to challenge them.
7. Demonstrate how to share empowerment theory and practice with constituencies who are unfamiliar or inclined to oppose such.
8. Demonstrate an ability to apply research methods for evaluating the effectiveness of empowerment practice.

Catalog Description

This course presents a comprehensive bio-psychosocial approach for understanding and addressing health disparities in America.

Purpose

The purpose of this course is to: 1) provide a comprehensive understanding of health disparities and to facilitate the investigation of approaches to enhance health equity in racial and ethnic minority groups and other underserved populations; and 2) provide a broad base of knowledge related to a bio-psychosocial approach in addressing health disparities.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Acquire introductory, evidence-based knowledge related to various determinants of populations’ health.
2. Apply relevant behavioral and social sciences theory in understanding health disparities and health equity.
3. Identify the latest findings and multi-level strategies (both from leading authorities and assigned readings) designed to promote health equity in groups adversely affected by health disparities such as ethnic minorities, residents of rural areas, women, children, older adults, persons with disabilities and the LGBT community.
4. Identify the role of various health professionals in eliminating health disparities and particularly, how social workers working in various contexts can contribute to reducing health disparities.

Catalog Description

This course discusses, analyzes, and implements financing and budgeting theories and techniques applicable to planning, operating, and developing social services.

Purpose

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the role of financial management in the modern nonprofit organization. The course covers applications of budgeting, and financial and managerial accounting principles and procedures to nonprofit organizations (social services, educational institutions, the arts, cultural and recreational entities, charitable foundations, etc.). The emphasis throughout the course is on the practical application of the fundamental requirements of accounting and financial decision making in the nonprofit organization.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of the major operating revenue sources of nonprofits, including donations, grants, and commercial revenues, and the relative importance of each for various types of nonprofit entities.
2. Describe and apply the knowledge of basic concepts and terminology related to cost analysis in nonprofit organizations as well as demonstrate the ability to conduct cost analyses of specific departments and services within a nonprofit organization.
3. Integrate knowledge of the different types of budgets that nonprofits may employ and the concept of strategic budgeting used in “capital-constrained” organizations.
4. Ability to employ flexible budgeting, breakeven analysis, and variance analysis of established budgets.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of nonprofit financial accounting principles and procedures, and ability to read, interpret and understand the audited financial statements of a nonprofit entity.

Catalog Description

This course examines skills and knowledge in grant writing for program planning and service delivery.

Purpose

This is an elective course. It is designed to provide students with knowledge and skills in program development, and proposal and grant writing.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify a need and develop an idea from programmatic inception through resource development and implementation.
2. Complete a focused literature review in order to support hypothesis and aims of grant proposal.
3. Produce a succinct assessment of need, develop a consistent and workable program plan, write clearly defined goals and objectives, and identify appropriate monitoring and evaluation measures.
4. Prepare a logic model, to include resources and raw materials in the form of inputs, services and activities in the form of outputs, measurable outputs and impact to address the benefit to community/society.
5. Prepare a complete program budget in a grant format.
6. Demonstrate an understanding of the different type of funding sources and identify where to find this information.
7. Integrate information from program development, literature review, logic model, budget and funding sources to produce a grant, crafted to provide evidence of an appropriate fit with the funding agency and the fitness of the grant team to fulfill the contract.

Catalog Description

This course examines clinical intervention strategies for practice with children and adolescents, and explores strengths and challenges common to these client groups.

Purpose

This course will teach approaches to clinical assessment and intervention with children and adolescents. It will address intervention issues for children from infancy through adolescence, and developmental and contextual strategies that influence changes in the intervention process.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Demonstrate understanding of various child and adolescent psychosocial issues.
2. Apply concepts and theories from child development research to intervention methods with children and adolescents.
3. Apply clinical social work intervention skills in working with children and adolescents.
4. Demonstrate clinical practice skills applicable to working with children and adolescents of diverse backgrounds, taking into consideration ethnic/racial and other issues of social class.
5. Demonstrate ability to evaluate clinical interventions with children and adolescents.

Catalog Description

This course focuses on three areas of social work practice and interventions in schools: student behavior issues, special education and the coordination of services between schools and communities.

Purpose

This elective course is designed to develop knowledge and competence for the interdisciplinary roles that social workers perform in relation to public educational systems, including an understanding of the causes of violence, oppression and discrimination in schools and respective preventive intervention strategies for such issues.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Differentiate various models of school social work practice and interventions for appropriate application, adaptation, and utilization with students, parents/families, school personnel and the community to address specific issues and problems rooted in school settings.
2. Utilize appropriate advocacy processes to uphold the legal rights of students and parents/families in obtaining an appropriate education for students.
3. Develop, increase and/or enhance pertinent resources for school social work services and interventions that include multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to help address student and school-based problems.
4. Apply and/or adapt appropriate interventions when working with diverse students for whom school social work services are indicated.
5. Apply social organization, ecological perspectives, crisis intervention, and systems theory to social work practice and interventions in school settings.
6. Facilitate diversity group exercises with students to address prejudice, discrimination and violence in schools and their communities.

Catalog Description

This course examines knowledge and skills for professional social work practice with elders.

Purpose

This course examines biopsychosocial conditions that represent normal and pathological functioning in older adults. Using a strengths perspective, students will gain clinical practice knowledge and skills for understanding and working with older adults across a range of settings.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Define the biopsychosocial conditions that are considered to be a normal part of the aging process, including not only the experience of loss, grief, and end of life issues but also adaptability, resilience, and accumulated wisdom.
2. Define the biopsychosocial conditions that represent pathological conditions among older adults such as depression, dementia, delirium, and anxiety.
3. Develop an understanding of the process of different assessments and diagnoses to distinguish between different types of cognitive and emotional needs among diverse populations of older adults.
4. Identify the essential features, signs, symptoms, and risk factors associated with the development of depression, suicidal ideation, dementia, delirium, and anxiety.
5. Develop clinical practice knowledge and skill in determining appropriate interventions with older adults experiencing cognitive and emotional conditions.
6. Recognize the significance of sociocultural factors as they relate to relationship building, the helping process, utilization of social services, assessment, and intervention with older adults.
7. Demonstrate ability for culturally competent gerontological social work practice.
8. Evaluate practice effectiveness in meeting the needs of older adults and their families.

Catalog Description

Provides theoretical and substantive content that will enable students to gain knowledge, understanding, and skill in relation to crisis intervention in social work practice.

Purpose

This course is based on the premise that social work students and practitioners need working knowledge of the crisis model since many clients do not seek help until a crisis exists.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify and discuss the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of crisis intervention.
2. Define and differentiate between types of crises, that is, developmental or maturational versus situational.
3. Delineate the goals of crisis intervention and compare/contrast them with treatment goals of other selected intervention models.
4. Identify and discuss the specific techniques of the model in practice.
5. Formulate a valid assessment and intervention plan for a variety of crisis situations.

Catalog Description

This course examines stages of grief and bereavement with a variety of social treatment interventions to assist the bereaved client in dealing with the grieving process.

Purpose

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the processes of death and dying, and to help them become aware of a variety of social treatment interventions used to deal with the complex phenomena of grief and bereavement.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Develop a theoretical understanding of the processes of death and dying, and the consequent grief and mourning phases.
2. Explain the impact of cultural, ethnic, and spiritual responses to the grieving process
3. Relate the understanding and role of social work practice, values, and ethics to grief and bereavement therapy.
4. Demonstrate diagnostic and assessment skills relevant to the understanding of clients experiencing grief and bereavement.
5. Explain the implementation of a variety of social work intervention procedures used in grief and bereavement therapy.
6. Discuss the student's own feelings and attitudes with regard to death and dying.
7. Demonstrate practice skills applicable to working with grieving persons of diverse backgrounds.

Catalog Description

This course provides an introduction to the core concepts of evidence based assessment and intervention with adolescents and children. Using an inquiry (problem) based learning approach, the students will apply the core concepts of trauma treatment to five specifically designed cases.

Purpose

This course will introduce students to the core concepts (general theory and foundational knowledge), which informs evidence-based assessment and intervention with traumatized children and adolescents. Trauma is broadly defined, and includes children and adolescents exposed to traumatic events including, but not limited to natural disasters, war, abuse and neglect, medical trauma and witnessing interpersonal crime (e.g. domestic violence), community trauma, and other traumatic events. This course will highlight the role of development, culture and empirical evidence in trauma-specific interventions with children, adolescents and their families. It will address the level of functioning of primary care giving environments and assess the capacity of the community to facilitate restorative processes.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Explain how traumatic experiences are inherently complex.
2. Illustrate how trauma occurs within a broad context that included children’s personal characteristics, life experiences and current circumstances.
3. Appraise the manner in which trauma events often generate secondary adversities, life changes and distressing reminders in children’s daily lives.
4. Evaluate a wide range of reactions to trauma and loss experienced by a child and family.
5. Examine the manner in which danger and safety are core concerns in the lives of traumatized children.
6. Provide a framework for intervention which addresses the level of functioning of primary care-giving environments, including parent/caregiver and family unit.
7. Describe how pre-existing protective and promotive factors can reduce the adverse impacts of trauma exposure across development.
8. Identify how posttraumatic adversities strongly influence development.
9. Describe how traumatic experiences evoke strong biological (neurological) responses.
10. Examine the manner in which culture is closely interwoven with traumatic experiences, response and recovery.
11. Determine the manner in which interventions with trauma-exposed children and adolescents need to address ethical and legal issues as they arise.
12. Recognize how interventions with trauma-exposed children and adolescents impact the practitioner in working with these populations.

Catalog Description

This course explores frameworks and skills for understanding types, history, and impact of trauma on individuals, family, and community.

Purpose

Analyze theoretical frameworks for understanding trauma, including neurobiological aspects and types of trauma, history of traumatology, and impact of trauma on individuals, family and community, with an emphasis on strengths, resiliency, coping, multicultural issues, and systems factors. Include knowledge and skills in developing assessment and intervention approaches across the lifespan.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Identify the theoretical underpinnings of trauma for the analysis of traumatic life experiences, including Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Acute Stress disorder.
2. Define types of trauma and differentiate between interpersonal trauma (sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse and incest) and other types/situational trauma (combat/military, natural disaster, political violence and accidents).
3. Utilize a lifespan approach in designing trauma treatment, with an integrated knowledge of resilience and human development.
4. Formulate clinical assessment processes based on social work ethics and develop research-based treatment approaches with evaluative measures for a variety of traumatic life experiences.
5. Identify posttraumatic growth in various individuals, with a focus on fostering individual, family and community resilience after a traumatic event.
6. Develop strategies for preventing, addressing and managing vicarious traumatization.
7. Critically assess reactions to trauma across various cultures and use this assessment in the formulation and delivery of culturally-grounded interventions.

Catalog Description

This course examines knowledge for integrating human sexuality in the practice of social work.

Purpose

This course explores the bio-psycho-social and historical variables associated with human sexuality across the lifespan. The course integrates sexuality in the thinking and practice of social workers. Through examination of sexual expression and behavior from the social work perspective, the student will be better prepared to assume a significant role in helping clients address issues of human sexuality.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Explore the bio-psycho-social, historical, political, and cultural contexts of human sexuality.
2. Examine biases, range and diversity of attitudes and practices, interpersonal obstacles, beliefs, and values in the area of human sexuality.
3. Identify the differences between personal and professional values and ethics, and identify possible means of reconciliation pertaining to sexuality issues.
4. Describe the biological aspects of sexuality, including the sexual response cycle, anatomy and physiology, and development of sexually transmitted infections.
5. Develop a framework for understanding human sexuality across the lifespan and the need for intimacy and healthy relationships.
6. Explore sexual and gender diversity including orientation, gender identity, gender role, and biological sex.
7. Analyze the misuse of sexuality to influence, manipulate, and control others.
8. Identify the role of social work in advocating for social justice and human rights and to addressing oppression in the arena of human sexuality.

Catalog Description

This course examines concepts regarding conflict resolution with emphasis on teaching a generic mediation model applicable to social work practice.

Purpose

The purpose of this course is to introduce concepts regarding conflict and conflict resolution and to teach students a generic mediation model that is applicable to social work practice.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Define the differences between litigation, arbitration and mediation.
2. Delineate the relationship between conflict theory and mediation practice.
3. Discuss the differences and similarities between mediation, psychotherapy, legal advocacy and social work practice.
4. Discuss the interdisciplinary nature of mediation practice.
5. Identify situations appropriate for mediation.
6. Identify the stages of the mediation process.
7. Discuss the impact of race/ethnicity, gender, and social class on the mediation process.
8. Conduct a mediation independently and as a co-mediator.
9. Analyze and evaluate a mediated dispute.

Catalog Description

This course outlines knowledge and specific skill sets related to effective social work practice with individuals who may identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender or Queer (LGBTQ).

Purpose

This course explores the conceptual frameworks for understanding LGBTQ communities within their social contexts. Students explore personal and societal biases and develop knowledge about key experiences, themes, issues and needs of LGBTQ communities. In addition, this course focuses on preparing future social work professionals to effectively work with LGBTQ communities through:

1. Providing evidence-based, culturally appropriate clinical interventions with individuals, couples and families.
2. Empowering LGBTQ clients and advocating for social justice, equality and policy change.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Detail advanced methods for acknowledging and confronting personal and societal biases based on sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual/ affectional orientation.
2. Demonstrate knowledge of evidence based approaches with LGBTQ individuals from varying cultural heritages and with sensitivity to women, people of color, and those who are economically disadvantaged.
3. Analyze how multiple identities of both the client and the social worker may impact the access to, delivery of, and effectiveness of clinical services for LGBTQ individuals, their partners and families.
4. Critically evaluate the constructs of hetero-normativity, binary gender and privilege and explore how these constructs often lead to homo-negativity and trans-negativity.
5. Explore cultural and religious prohibitions concerning homosexual/bisexual identity, behavior and/or gender identity and/or expression and evaluate the impact of these prohibitions on clinical care and service delivery, including the use of “reparative therapy”.
6. Develop knowledge and skills which empower both minority and majority practitioners in working inside and outside of the LGBTQ communities.
7. Apply research skills for assessing the efficacy of social work practice with LGBTQ communities.
8. Identify and analyze approaches that may be utilized by heterosexual and cisgender individuals to advocate for social change as part of a continually evolving multicultural context.

Catalog Description

Examines current bio-psychosocial problems of alcohol and drug use, abuse, and addiction with focus on historical antecedents, pharmacological action, and factors associated with alcohol and drug taking behavior. Implications for policy and social work practice are emphasized.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Trace the societal measures historically used for control of drugs and alcohol.
2. Discuss the pharmacological action of alcohol and commonly abused drugs in America today.
3. Delineate physiobiological, psychological, and sociocultural factors associated with alcohol and drug taking behavior over the life span.
4. Discuss theoretical perspectives of abuse and addiction.
5. Critically analyze the drug/alcohol literature and assess its relevance for social work practice.
6. Discuss the present and future implications of drug and alcohol policies and the efficacy of treatment.

Catalog Description

This course provides knowledge and skills for social work practice in integrated health settings. A framework for integrated service delivery for mental health, substance abuse, and medical conditions is described.

Purpose

This course is an advanced practice class that builds on the student’s knowledge of behavioral health assessment, treatment planning, documentation, and evaluation. Students will learn advanced applications of this knowledge within an integrated healthcare model of treatment. This course will emphasize practice skills designed to enhance effective communication across disciplines to prepare students for a collaborative health care treatment approach. Students will learn to apply an anti-racist, health equity lens when considering the impact of social determinants of health on healthcare access, treatment options, and health outcomes.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. Distinguish the role of social work in integrated care settings.
2. Describe theories, perspectives, and practice models in integrated care.
3. Identify core concepts such as primary care, continuum of interdisciplinary collaboration, chronic care model, medical home, common factors model, and the 5As.
4. Discuss common co-occurring behavioral health conditions seen in primary care settings.
5. Apply evidence-based treatment for engagement, assessment, and treatment pf behavioral health, substance misuse and, frequently treated medical issues in primary care settings.
6. Utilize an anti-racist, health-equity lens to describe social determinants of health and their impact on disease prevalence, treatment options, and health outcomes.

Catalog Description

Supervised social work practicum in an approved setting with a qualified practicum instructor; requires a minimum of 250 clock hours.

Purpose

A Practicum elective (SOCW 7391) is an option available to students who choose to complete an additional 250 practicum clock hours. The additional clock hours for the Practicum elective can be accumulated over the life of the placement, meaning you can carry extra hours over from semester to semester. A Practicum elective is considered an open elective on the student’s degree plan and can take the place of a classroom elective.

Catalog Description

Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Topics will vary; may be taken more than once.

Selected Topics

Some of the recent selected topics offered include:

1. Abolitionist Perspectives in Social Work
2. Social Work and Mass Incarceration
3. Social Work and the Law
4. Shame, Empathy and Resilience
5. Perspectives on Human Trafficking