SWKM 6630SWK in Health & Integ Prac

Catalog

Prerequisite(s): SWKM 5400 and SWKM 5425, or SWKM 6400 with a B- or above Learners focus on social work in health care throughout multiple systems and settings from strengths-based and ecological perspectives. Learners engage with information required to work in and provide leadership within health care from primary care, to inpatient and community-based services and program delivery settings. Learners will be exposed to multidisciplinary work and integrated healthcare teams, as well as, the examination of multiple societal, economic and population changes that influence healthcare policy. Learners will also examines systems that health care clients, families and communities may also be engaged in, e.g. child welfare, mental health, criminal justice systems and their potential relevant intersections with health care across the lifespan.