Practicum III: Clinical Theories, Modalities and Skills

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Required for advanced-standing students and those in the second year of the MSW program in the CPFC concentration. Focuses on advanced skills and particular techniques used with vulnerable and oppressed populations at each stage of the direct practice helping process and with difficult practice situations, such as resistant and involuntary clients, divorced families, child abuse and neglect, and other serious social problems affecting individuals, client groups, dyads, and family systems. Case examples representing complex client situations are drawn from the populations served by students in their fieldwork placements with a specific emphasis placed on working from a social justice and human rights perspective in the practicum. Students must earn a grade of B or higher in this course or it will have to be repeated.