Social Work Intervention With Adolescents.

Catalog description

Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Prerequisites: SLWK 610 ; and SLWK 693 and SLWK 694 , SLWK 695 , or SLWK 612 , each with minimum grade of C. This course builds upon foundational social work practice knowledge, values, methods and skills in providing a concentration on clinical practice interventions with adolescents. Three general dimensions of adolescent functioning and adaptation are addressed from a multidimensional, biopsychosocial perspective: 1) behavioral and emotional issues that fall within a range of typical adolescent adjustment; 2) internalizing problems of adolescents that interfere with functioning in interpersonal, academic and family contexts; and 3) externalizing problems of adolescence that manifest in conflictual relations with others, as well as in breaches in societal norms and rules. The course introduces and explores evidence-based practice methodologies in addressing behavioral, emotional and situational problems of adolescents and their families in a range of social work intervention settings and includes a focus on individual, family and group intervention modalities.