SW 524 - Adv Soc Wrk Prac With Families

Credits: 3

This course is designed to build on students’ beginning understanding of social work practice with families, providing in-depth information and experience with the major models of family therapy. All models will be viewed through an ecological lens, integrating the impact of policy, values, agency, economics, race, gender, culture and oppression. There will be opportunities for students to apply these perspectives to a range of clients in a variety of settings including child welfare, schools and health care. Students will not only learn about the models but also get an opportunity to evaluate them for their strengths and weaknesses as they fit with what they are learning in class, work and internships, and as they examine them against their own individual styles. Class participation through discussion, videotapes, and experiential exercises will play a large role in augmenting reading assignments and lecture material. Prerequisites: foundation courses. and summer only.