Social Welfare - Children's Mental Health

Catalog description

This course focuses on enhancing clinical knowledge and skills for social work related to children's mental health. The course will provide an overview of prevalence, definitions, and policies that frame the issue of children's mental health and will explore how child development, trauma, and other social and environmental contexts can impact mental health concerns and treatment for children and adolescents. The course will also cover assessment, common mental health diagnoses for children, and evidence informed services and treatment. Recognizing the role of family and multiple systems in children's lives, the course will emphasize the continuing and complex interactions between the person and environment and the resulting multiple influences on mental health, including the incorporation of social justice and critical perspectives. Prerequisite: Admission to MSW Advanced Standing plan of study or completion of social welfare generalist courses.