Clinical Social Work Practice with Children and Families 1

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This course will examine core theories, dynamics, functions, policies, and ethics associated with the management of private and public child welfare services are analyzed and examined with a particular focus on the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to successfully lead organizations providing such services in the environment of today and the future. Emphasis is on the adaptation of generic external (public and community relations, media, and legislative relations, etc.) skills to the child welfare setting and specific issues associated with the management of child welfare functions, such as foster care and adoption, residential care, family preservation, forensic investigations in interfamilial and institutional settings, legal affairs, programs treating the co-occurring disorder, and others.