Human Behavior and the Social Environment I

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to provide students with the theories needed to understand client social functioning, environment, mental health, and physical health. These domains will provide a set of lenses through which students will learn to critically analyze how people develop and function across a spectrum of micro to macro social systems (e.g., individual, family, social groups, organizations, community, cultural, and temporal) and how these systems can promote or impede health, well-being, and resiliency. Consideration will be given to the influence of diversity, characterized, but not limited to, age, gender, class, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, and religion.