Healthcare Social Work II: Social Work Practice in Integrated Health

Catalog description

In this course, students explore the central contribution of social work to comprehensive health care. They evaluate social work interventions to assess and ameliorate the psychological effects of illness and disability. Students also examine roles for social workers in prevention and health maintenance including case management skills. This course provides information about person-centered health care and evidence-based practices that are essential to integrated health care, such as screening, motivational interviewing, and wellness self-management. This course is part two of a two-course elective sequence in Integrated Health Care.