Clinical Practice with Children, Youth, and Families. 3 credits

Catalog description

Applies evidence-based prevention, assessment, interventions, and treatment practice to address the needs of children, youth, young adults, parents, and caregivers. Examines development from a biopsychosocial perspective with consideration of both internal and external influences, trauma and loss, and responses to the expressed client experience inclusive of culture and community. Assesses issues such as substance use, diverse family types, immigrant and refugee status, children in kinship and foster home placements, and domestic and community violence. Presents interventions that have shown efficacy in historically marginalized populations including experiential therapy, sensorimotor psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, behavioral therapy, and parent management training. Offered by Social Work . May not be repeated for credit.