Healthcare Social Work I: Integrated Health Care Policy and Services

Catalog description

In this course, students explore the specific implications of critical policy issues on evidence-based social work practice in health care settings. Topics include public funding for health care, the development of behavioral health services in the community, and the passage of mental health parity legislation. Students also examine the foundation for social work practice in integrated health including ethical social work practice, models and frameworks for medical social work practice, health care financing and workforce development. This course is part one of a two-course elective sequence in Integrated Health Care.