Adv Soc Wrk with Families

Catalog description

This course is designed to build on students’ foundational 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, age, 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 will also engage in opportunities 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. Videos, observations, and experiential exercises are essential learning strategies used in this course. Prerequisites: foundation courses. Offered: spring and summer only.