19:910:511Advanced Direct Practice I (3) Focus on advanced social work clinical and client advocacy skills and techniques at each stage of the helping process, and with difficult practice situations as these apply to work with individuals, client groups, couples, and family systems. Case examples are drawn particularly from the client populations addressed in the clusters. Prerequisite: Successful completion of professional foundation courses and statistics prerequisite. Corequisite: Must be taken concurrently with advanced direct practice and cluster-appropriate field placement. |
19:910:512Advanced Direct Practice II (3) Validity, relevance, and differential use in practice of various selected psychotherapeutic theories that have influenced social work direct practice with individuals, families, couples, and groups. Ethnic-sensitive and feminist perspectives important critical filters. Continuing concern for the relevance of these theories for people of color, women, and gay and lesbian persons. Prerequisite: 19:910:511. Corequisite: Must be taken concurrently with advanced direct practice and cluster-appropriate field placement. |
19:910:513Advanced Direct Practice with Adolescents (3) The physical, psychological, social, and cultural dimensions of adolescence in today`s culture, with focus on advanced direct practice with typical problems of adolescents. Particular attention paid to high-risk groups. Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice. |
19:910:514Advanced Theory and Practice Group Work (3) Skills developed regarding direct interventions with individuals in groups, with groups as a whole, and with groups to influence their environments. Addresses program building, consultation, and teamwork in developing group work services for individual and social change, especially for ethnic/cultural minorities, the oppressed, and the victimized. Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice. |
19:910:516Advanced Practice in Health Care (3) Problem-solving model of direct practice is applied, at an advanced level, for individuals, families, and groups in health care and mental health care settings. Skills of crisis intervention, case management, and discharge planning addressed. Professional practice as part of an interdisciplinary team. Prerequisite: Successful completion of professional foundation courses. |
19:910:517Advanced Direct Practice: Individuals with Mental Illness (3) Contemporary interventions with clients who have severe psychiatric disorders and their families, in institutional and community settings. Intervention techniques with the more severe and chronic forms of psychiatric disorder, as defined in DSM IV; psychotropic medications; case management; the treatment orientations to care; and special issues in work with children and adolescents. Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice. |
19:910:518Advanced Direct Practice with Families and Children at Risk (3) Focuses on families of social and ethnic minorities and other oppressed groups of special concern to the child welfare system who are at risk of neglecting or abusing their children. Emphasis on assessment of risk, crisis intervention and case management skills, work with community service systems, and use of the legal system. Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice. |
19:910:519Advanced Direct Practice with Families (3) Advanced practice with family systems, with emphasis on systems-analytical perspective that includes environing systems, as well as internal dynamics of the family system. Differential use of the major theoretical approaches in family therapy. Emphasis on a social work framework and on such traditional family social work techniques as advocacy, brokerage, and provision of concrete services. Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice. |
19:910:520Advanced Direct Practice in School Settings (3) Advanced direct practice with children and adolescents, in the context of the public school setting, individually, in groups, and with their families. Emphasis on the role of the school social worker in a host setting that is bound by governmental statutes and regulations, and on relationships with teachers and school administrators, with other members of the professional team, and with community agencies and groups. Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice. |
19:910:521Advanced Direct Practice: Intervention with Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Misusers (3) Various models and intervention approaches to working with alcohol, tobacco, and other drug misusers. Families and other client systems addressed. Emphasis on assessment to identify ATOD problems in a variety of practice settings with various populations, and on matching interventions according to the client system, the substance(s) misused, the extent of misuse, personal resources, social networks, and availability of services. Research findings and theoretical perspectives are central. Pre- or corequisite: 19:910:511 Advanced Direct Practice. |
19:910:535Advanced Administration, Policy, and Planning Practice I (3) Core theories, elements, and functions of human services management are analyzed with a particular focus on the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to lead successfully public and private human service agencies in the environment of today and the future. Emphasis on internal management functions, such as budget and finance, human resource administration, applications of information technology, and governance relationships; and on external functions, such as legislative, media, and community relationships. Crosscutting topics enhance skills in leadership, mediation, and conflict resolution. Corequisite: Must be taken concurrently with APP and cluster-appropriate |
19:910:536Advanced Administration, Policy, and Planning Practice II (3) Processes and technologies of strategic planning and program development in human service organizations from problem formulation through program design, resource mobilization, and implementation. Special attention to designing programs and meeting the needs of populations at risk. Prerequisite: 19:910:535. Corequisite: Must be taken concurrently with APP and cluster-appropriate field placement. |
19:910:537Fiscal Procedures (3) Overview of fiscal responsibilities of social agency executives. The accounting process, financial statements, budgeting, internal controls, audits, tax compliance, and fund accounting. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation. |
19:910:538Law and Social Work (3) Law in health and human services. Reading, using, and finding law. Law in practice in relation to law on the books. Topics include due process, equal protection, discrimination, confidentiality and duty to warn, child abuse, domestic violence, AIDS, sexual harassment, mental health, developmental disabilities, courtroom testimony, malpractice, and administrative liability. |
19:910:539Community Organization (3) Focus on identifying, developing, and testing community organizing skills. Special attention given to leadership development and community analyses. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation. |
19:910:540Supervision and Consultation (3) Analysis of supervisory roles in human service organizations. Covers the three functions of supervision-supportive, educational, and administrative. Emphasis on frontline supervision. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation. |
19:910:541Marketing and Grantsmanship (3) Introduction to current strategies and procedures for identifying, obtaining, and maintaining a diverse portfolio of social service funding sources; review of methodologies for packaging, marketing, and selling program proposals to social service funders and consumers. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation. |
19:910:557Integrative Seminar: Children and Families (3) Integrates learning from the professional foundation, field instruction, practice methods, and the area of children and families. Emphasis on problem solving, integrating issues across social work methods, linking theory to practice, and furthering the skills of intervention. Prerequisites: 19:910:585 and 595. To be taken during final term of the M.S.W. program. |
19:910:559Integrative Seminar: Health, Mental Health, and Aging (3) Integrates learning from the professional foundation; field instruction; and the areas of health, mental health, and aging. Emphasis on problem solving, integrating issues across social work methods, linking theory to practice, and furthering the skills of critical thinking. Prerequisites: 19:910:587 and 595. To be taken during final term of the M.S.W. program. |
19:910:561Group Dynamics (3) Emphasizes the study of small groups, both cognitively and experientially, by focusing on theory and research about the processes, structures, and functions of small groups as they relate to social work practice in human services. |
19:910:562Understanding the Impact of Death and Terminal Illness (3) Life consequences of various ways of understanding death; attempts to cope. Social work intervention with dying individuals, their families, and the bereaved; ethical issues. |
19:910:564Women's Issues (3) Examines women in different parts of the world; the institutional factors and values of society that impact on personal roles, status, and discrimination of women; and the social and individual problems that affect women because of their gender. Feminist theories and feminist practices that facilitate institutional and individual changes are discussed. |
19:910:566Family Violence (3) Examination of the definitions and scope of family violence in today`s society. Focus on the prevalence, etiology, myths, and dynamics of child physical abuse, incest, date rape, marital rape, sibling violence, women battering, and elder abuse and neglect. Includes a review of the issues, policies, programs, and services aimed at remedying and eliminating violence in the home. |
19:910:567Child Sexual Abuse: Assessment and Intervention (3) Focuses on the initial assessment, intervention, and management of child sexual abuse from a multidisciplinary perspective. Specific topics covered will include personal values and reactions to child sexual abuse, conceptual frameworks, psychosocial dynamics, offenders, investigative interviewing, crisis intervention, child growth and development, medical management, and preparing for court testimony. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation. |
19:910:569Social Work Perspectives on AIDS (3) The impact of HIV infection and AIDS on the individual, family, society, and institutions that provide care. Political, social, legal, ethical, spiritual, and public health issues and the perspectives of people living with HIV infection and AIDS that are needed to inform practice and policy. |
19:910:571Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs (3) Action of drugs, epidemiology; consequences of ATOD use, abuse, and addiction; and issues of prevention, intervention, and evaluation addressed. Attention given to various populations. Research findings and theoretical perspectives. |
19:910:572Gerontology (3) Survey of research literature on the aged as a population group and aging as a process. Social, economic, physiological, and psychological aspects of aging; prevalent theories of aging; social issues in both national and international perspectives; assessment and intervention with the elderly. |
19:910:585Issues in Social Policy: Children and Families (3) Models of policy analysis applied to children and families issues and problems. Addresses understanding of values and sociopolitical forces that define problems; populations affected; current policies and programs and their impact; service delivery and resource allocation; unmet needs; trends; and analysis of political processes and change strategies. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation. Required for students in the Children and Families cluster. To be taken during the final year of the M.S.W. program. |
19:910:587Issues in Social Policy: Health, Mental Health, and Aging (3) Models of policy analysis applied to health, mental health, and aging issues and problems. Addresses understanding of values and sociopolitical forces that define problems; populations affected; current policies and programs and their impact; service delivery and resource allocation; unmet needs; trends; and analysis of political processes and change strategies. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation. Required for students in the Health, Mental Health, and Aging cluster. To be taken during the final year of the M.S.W. program. |
19:910:595Methods of Social Work Research II (3) Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of agency programs and individual practice. Participation in hands-on, small-group research projects to cover all phases of the research process and use of computer technology. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation. |
19:910:600Field Practicum III (3) Opportunities provided to become competent in providing advanced social work services and applying theory and concepts to practice in preparation for advanced professional practice. Prerequisite: Successful completion of the professional foundation and 19:910:509. Cluster and concentration specific. To be taken concurrently with 19:910:511 (Direct Practice Concentration) or 19:910:535 (APP concentration). Placement is determined by choice of concentration and cluster. |
19:910:601Field Practicum IV (4) Continued learning experiences in specialized settings in preparation for advanced professional practice. Prerequisite: 19:910:600. To be taken concurrently with 19:910:512 (Direct Practice Concentration) or 19:910:536 (APP concentration). |
19:910:610Individual Study (BA) A tutorial elective arranged with a faculty member in an area of mutual interest. Students may earn no more than 3 credits. Completion of a student/faculty contract and approval of the dean required. |
