Social Welfare - Social Work with Womxn&Femmes

Catalog description

This course focuses on enhancing clinical skills (e.g., diagnostic assessment; individual, group, and family therapy skills) and related multi-level skills for practice with people who identify (or are socialized) as women, womyn, womxn, femme, feminine, female, etc. This course is taught through an intentional intersectional lens, which will provide historical and conceptual critiques of dominant and mainstream feminist approaches, while informing students of other possible frameworks toward practice with womxn and femmes, including critical, liberatory, and womxn and femme of Color lenses. Will include examination of practice approaches to problems that womxn and femmes frequently experience. Prerequisite: Admission to MSW Advanced Standing plan of study or completion of social welfare generalist courses.