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 offers a survey of the major mental disorders typically encountered by social workers in clinical practice and other areas of practice such as protective services, family services, and court-related service areas. It is designed to increase the social worker's familiarity with diagnostic classifications, criteria, etiologies, and the epidemiology of disorders and social work treatment for disorders.

Trauma-informed practice skills promote client post-traumatic growth and healing. This advanced practice course explores trauma-informed engagement, assessment, treatment and intervention, and termination strategies; analyzes the effectiveness of evidence-based and somatic treatment models; and explores treatment implications for micro practice.

Trauma-informed practice skills promote client post-traumatic growth and healing. This advanced practice course explores trauma-informed engagement, assessment, treatment and intervention, and termination strategies; analyzes the effectiveness of evidence-based and somatic treatment models; and explores treatment implications for micro practice.

Trauma-informed practice skills promote client post-traumatic growth and healing. This advanced practice course explores trauma-informed engagement, assessment, treatment and intervention, and termination strategies; analyzes the effectiveness of evidence-based and somatic treatment models; and explores treatment implications for micro practice.

Students in this course engage in a generalist social work field placement under the direction of a faculty field professor and an agency field instructor. Through field education seminars students integrate knowledge, skills, and behaviors from prerequisite and concurrent courses, to demonstrate foundation social work practice with individuals, families, small groups, organizations and communities. The focus includes attention to context, policy, ethical considerations, the application of theory, and the use of research-informed interventions.

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.

Students are introduced to the roles, responsibilities, and professional behaviors of social work, and the place of ethics and professionalism in social work practice. The development process of morality and professional ethics and the use of self-reflection and professional use of self in direct social work practice are examined.