Social Work Practices with Addictions

Catalog description

This course is designed to increase student knowledge and skills for addressing of addictive phenomena and its relation to social work practice issues. Students values are explored and cognitive and affective processing of macro, meso and micro level practice concerns are covered. Attention will be given to biological, psychological and social factors in the etiology of individual addiction and implications for families. Addiction exists in diverse cultural contexts; thus, the importance of language and clinical presentation is addressed. The consequences of addictions will be studied at the individual, family, community and societal levels. There will be some policy covered as well. This course will draw on current research in the field of addictions and will emphasize critical thinking and analysis of the current controversies in the field.