This course introduces students to generalist social work practice with individuals and families. SW 600 teaches the generalist practice model and related skills: engagement, interviewing, assessment, planning/intervention, implementation, evaluation and termination with a focus on helping students to master professional skills for direct practice with individuals and families. Additionally, this course offers an examination of social work practitioners' roles in the direct delivery of social services within the context of professional values and ethics.

This course introduces students to generalist social work practice with families and groups. SW 602 reviews the theoretical and philosophical formulations that underlie direct practice with groups and families. This course also focuses on helping students develop and apply professional practice skills based on these formulations.

This course introduces students to generalist social work practice with families and groups. SW 602 reviews the theoretical and philosophical formulations that underlie direct practice with groups and families. This course also focuses on helping students develop and apply professional practice skills based on these formulations.

SW 620 presents theory as a tool for understanding human behavior and serves as a theoretical foundation for understanding human behavior and subsequent social work intervention. Specific attention is paid to incorporating theories that are evidence based and knowledge informed in being able to understand clients within the larger context of their environment.

SW 620 presents theory as a tool for understanding human behavior and serves as a theoretical foundation for understanding human behavior and subsequent social work intervention. Specific attention is paid to incorporating theories that are evidence based and knowledge informed in being able to understand clients within the larger context of their environment.

This advanced level practicum builds on the foundation practicum and foundation level courses, and prepares students to practice as social workers at the advanced level in public and private settings. The advanced generalist practicum focuses on the application of theory, knowledge, and skills, and integrates the social work competencies developed in the advanced curriculum year with practice experience in community-based agencies to address complex needs and problems.

This course is designed to prepare the social worker to conduct culturally sensitive, structured, semi-structured, and observational clinical assessments of adults, children, and families. Special attention will be paid to engagement techniques, assessment skills, treatment planning, and best-practice intervention models. Students will learn to develop and implement Motivational Interviewing skills, treatment plans as they relate to the assessment, and evidence-based interventions.

This course provides social work students an opportunity for advanced study of differential diagnostic assessment using the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The course also provides an opportunity for more detailed study of the more common mental disorders seen in social work practice. Students will engage in the advanced study of clinical decision making as it pertains to current mental health assessment, with special attention made to anti-racist and anti-oppressive inclusive mental health assessment.

This course builds on previous content related to clinical decision- making, psychopathology and clinical assessment, and is designed to 1) apply a range of intervention theories to children, adults, families and group, 2) facilitate the student's capacity to conduct a comparative analysis of the approaches across common, conceptual, clinical, cultural and ethical domains, and to provide the forum for a critique of each approach using the latest empirical evidence on efficacy and effectiveness.

This course offers an intensive study of four evidence-based practices: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. It is designed to increase the social worker's familiarity with evidence-based practices for social work treatment of mental health disorders.