Clinical Practice with Individuals, Families, and Groups II

Catalog description

In this generalist clinical practice course, students will build on the knowledge and practice skills developed in Clinical Practice with Individuals, Families, and Groups I. The course content emphasizes theoretical frameworks and approaches to practice including relational/psychodynamic, cognitive- behavioral, and family systems. It also explores risk assessment and intervention in the practice fields of child welfare, intimate partner violence (IPV), substance abuse, and mental health (including risk assessment and stabilization of mental health emergencies such as suicide risk, violence risk, acute psychosis, and inability to care for self). Issues of termination will be revisited as well as the salience of loss in their work with children and families. This course is taken concurrently with students’ first field placement.