Advanced Practice: Individuals & Families

Catalog description

This course addresses the challenges individuals and families face in contemporary society. The primary emphasis is social work practice with families. Students learn and apply family theories as a framework for practice, and a lens through which to objectively engage, assess, intervene, and terminate practice with families. Students examine and reflect on the importance of evaluating practice, knowing what worked well and where professional change and growth need to occur. Students examine the importance of faith in the social environment. They explore, examine, discuss and reflect on the role of larger systems in society and the impact on family life.