Social Welfare - Indigenous Families

Catalog description

This course is designed to prepare graduate students with clinical social work skills within the context of diverse views and experiences of Indigenous people in the United States. Students completing this course will be able to apply a variety of social work frameworks of knowledge, policies, and practice methodologies needed to serve Indigenous individuals, families, and communities. Topics will address Indigenous lifeways prior to contact, historical and cultural forces, such as policies that have impacted Indigenous people. Students will learn evidence-based forms of helping as well as Indigenous ways of helping. Prerequisite: Admission to MSW Advanced Standing plan of study or completion of social welfare generalist courses.