Behavioral Health

Catalog description

Extends and elaborates the advanced generalist approach to social work practice to a special field of practice. The purpose of this course is to introduce the students to the social worker’s role in behavioral health care and the policy issues that impact on practice. The course will focus on four content areas: 1) what the social worker's role is in adult and child behavioral health care settings; 2) historic and current policies that affect behavioral health care services; 3) current research in behavioral health care related issues and 4) international models of care. Social workers are frequently involved in the delivery of services to people and families troubled by mental disorders in settings designed to deal specifically with those problems, as well as in other practice areas such as corrections, schools, child welfare, and gerontology