Advanced SW Practice II

Catalog description

Section information text: This is an advanced practice course designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills to apply social work services when working with families and groups. Students in this course will concentrate on the application of evidence-based practice theories and group work models consistent with empowerment and ecological perspectives. This course has a particular focus on families and groups from diverse cultural backgrounds and marginalized or oppressed populations. Students will demonstrate advanced practice skills in the assessment, intervention, and evaluation of family systems and groups. This course will focus on the influence of social work professional values in working with families and on group work practice. Students will learn to develop group goals and objectives and to plan, mediate, and facilitate the treatment group process.