GENERALIST METHODS LABORATORY

Catalog description

This laboratory course provides students with opportunities to practice, refine, and receive feedback on interviewing and helping skills appropriate to generalist social work practice with individuals and families. Using a structured, staged interviewing model, the lab emphasizes skill development in exploration, clarification, and action phases of helping interviews. Students engage in role-plays, recordings, peer observation, and instructor coaching to integrate micro-level methods into ethical and culturally responsive practice.