| source University of Washington (X) |
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department Social Work (X) |
Intellectual, historical, and ethical foundations of the social work profession. Engagement with crucial aspects of the profession's history; contemporary issues, problematics, and directions; and key concepts and theoretical frameworks. Students develop personal, professional, and intellectual foundations for practicing social work built on the central values of plurality and social justice.
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Analysis of poverty and inequality in United States. Analytic and descriptive focus on measurement, processes of production and perpetuation, and public policy responses. Examines causes of poverty, the role of policy, and socioeconomic dimensions of stratification, including race, ethnicity, class, gender, immigration status, disability, age, sexual orientation, and family structure.
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Focuses on personal and professional development toward social work practice for social justice. Employs critically self-reflective, experiential, and dialogic learning processes to engage students to explore personal meaning systems and narratives in the context of professional values of social justice, multiculturalism, empowerment, and globalization.
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Second of a two-quarter research sequence. Introduces a range of methods for informing evidenced-based social work practice. Emphasizes critical appraisal of the literature, development of research questions, and strategies and techniques for conducting practice-relevant research, including data collection and analysis.
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Foundation knowledge and skills for direct practice with individuals, families, and groups. Assists students toward mastery of interviewing and relationship building skills and knowledge of cross-cultural communication and practice issues and of social work values and ethics. Provides opportunity to develop beginning level skills in assessment. Offered: ASp.
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Foundation knowledge and skills for direct practice with individuals, families, and groups. Course assists students toward mastery in assessment, development of treatment plans based on theory and assessment information, goalsetting skills, and selection of appropriate interventions. Offered: AW.
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Focuses on ways in which management activities contribute to service effectiveness for clients and quality of conditions for staff. Various managerial roles, functions, and skills examined. Impact of agency structure, culture, and mission on staff, clients, and organizational outcomes discussed with emphasis on ways social work managers influence change. Offered: W.
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Provides frame of reference and skills for community-based social work practice. Theories of social change are examined with examples drawn from community organizing and policy advocacy. Offered: Sp.
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Focus on the teaching of practice skills (micro, mezzo, and/or macro) associated with key contemporary themes in social work. Possible topics include social work with American Indian communities, adult interpersonal violence, and assessment and brief intervention in substance abuse and dependence. Offered: SpS.
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Investigates how social and economic inequality in America is established, manifested, and maintained. Also examines interventions that purportedly address inequality. Provides analytic tools to help with critical thinking about competing views of inequality and the interventions that address it.
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Advanced study of policy and services relevant to practice with children, adolescents, and families. Applies social justice framework to understanding policy context and organization of services responses to child and family inequalities, especially for historically oppressed and marginalized populations. Examines social construction of policies in historical, political, and comparative context.
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Orients advanced standing students towards their practicum. Covers critical issues related to the advanced standing practicum and prepares students for successful practice in their chosen agencies. Incorporates and builds upon content and skills acquired through a generalist (micro, mezzo, and macro levels of practice) undergraduate social work education.
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Workshops for preparation for agency-based placement Interviewing and orientations occur at agencies. Credit/no credit only.
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Agency-based practicum with emphasis on development of knowledge, perspectives, and skills needed for practice with individuals, families, groups, organizations, and communities. Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite: social work major. Offered: AWSpS.
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Agency-based advanced practicum. Credit/no credit only. Prerequisite: SOC W 515 and foundation courses. Offered: AWSpS.
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Builds social workers' competencies to analyze, critique, and advocate for policies and processes that will support growing numbers of multigenerational families. Presents a feminist, multicultural and multigenerational perspective to analyze how historical and current service structures, policies, and regulations support or undermine families across the lifespan.
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Discussion of the health of the planet, economic and cultural globalization, the enduring legacies of imperialism and colonialism in this global era and their local impacts. Foci include international agreements, UN conventions, immigration and refugee policies.
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Examines the organization, policies, and services of U.S. health care system from a social justice framework. Topics include the U.S. health care system's historical development, differential access to health and health care, health care system reform, and the analysis of health care policy from contrasting ideological perspectives.
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Mental health policy trends and organization of services at national, state, and local levels reflected in legislative, regulatory, and institutional policies. Provides historical perspective on the development of U.S. mental health policies and services. Discusses specific areas of intersystem linkages in terms of equitable access and empowerment.
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Builds on foundation frameworks and competencies to develop specialized knowledge and skills for working with vulnerable children and families. An ecological framework informs family- and community-centered assessment and intervention that is empowering, culturally responsive, and clinically relevant. Foci include resilience, violence, attachment, loss, substance abuse, and disability.
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Develops specialized knowledge and skills for practice with children with mental health concerns and their families. Emphasis on child and family mental health assessment and interventions that are culturally relevant, collaborative, and strength-promoting. Topics include culture and mental health, system of care, psychotropic medication, ADHD, and depression.
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Develops advanced knowledge and skills for culturally relevant child welfare practice across a range of settings including child protection, foster care, and adoption. Topics include family dynamics around child maltreatment; trauma and its impact on children; separation, loss, and identity development; and self-care in child welfare practice.
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Emphasizes a multigenerational, culturally competent empowerment approach and in-depth knowledge on "best practices" related to assessment, diagnosis, and clinical interventions with older adults and their families. Builds on other multigenerational classes.
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Students design, plan, implement, and evaluate intergroup dialogue sessions as peer facilitators. Students facilitate intergroup dialogue in conjunction with SOC W 504. Focuses on intensive in-vivo instruction, consultation, and supervision of facilitators.
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Examination of current substantive topics in clinical and contextual practice. Content varies according to recent developments in the field and the interests of the instructor.
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