Advanced Africentric Theory and Interventions in Healthcare: 3 semester hours

Catalog description

This course builds upon the specialization core courses and engages students in gaining comprehensive knowledge, awareness, and skills for Africentric social work practice in the medical and behavioral health fields. Students will learn about the history of oppression and resilience of African-descent individuals from a bio-psych-social-cultural-spiritual perspective. The emphasis will be on understanding how Africentric theory dovetails with traditional helping theories and the components of best practices and evidence-based Africentric interventions to address health and mental health disparities for African-descent populations in the US.