Social Work Practice with Groups

Catalog description

This course focuses on the core knowledge, values, and skills for planning, implementing, and evaluating groups in generalist social work practice. Particular attention is given to groups serving diverse client systems and populations-at-risk. This is the second course in a four-course sequence on theories and methods of generalist social work practice. The course uses a systems framework that integrates several group social work theories and perspectives. It addresses the need for beginning generalist social workers to promote social justice and to be knowledgeable about human behavior and the social environment, as well as policy and research related to effective group work. *Concurrent enrollment in SWRK 3300 is allowed.