Examination of current substantive topics in policy practice. Content varies according to recent developments in the field and the interests of the instructor.
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Applies an institutional analysis of racism and white privilege to the strategies of community organizing by communities of color and indigenous peoples. Examines anti-racist organizational transformation, intersectionality of oppressions and privileges, white allies in anti-racist struggles, and the role of social workers in maintaining and combating institutional racism.
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Provides basic knowledge and skills to assess mental disorders and improve critical thinking concerning assessment and diagnosis. Emphasizes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) for its system of symptom description and classification. Examines challenges of methodological implications of mental health assessment across race, gender, and ethnicity.
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Provides students with the knowledge and basic skills to recognize and understand the dynamics of chemical dependency in the lives of individuals, how to assess the presence of this disorder, and what the issues are in referring individuals to treatment for this disorder.
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Focuses on social work interventions within the public child welfare system for children who have been abused and neglected. Includes practice models to ensure safety and permanency for children, federal and state mandates for permanency, cultural determinants, juvenile court dependency system, and research findings pertaining to permanency planning outcomes.
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Focuses on carrying out a formative and process evaluation of a community program in conjunction with program staff and clients. In addition to learning about program theory, measurement construction, study design, and data analysis, students develop consultative and presentation skills needed in utilization-focused evaluation.
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Examines policy, theory, research, and intervention in field of intimate partner violence with emphasis on historical, cultural, and political contexts. Advanced study of structural contributors, policy parameters, and service delivery and cross-systems necessary to effective practice and leadership in the field locally, nationally, and globally.
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Provides background in theories and models of disability that contribute to empowerment-oriented intervention techniques. Emphasizes direct practice skills for working with people with disabilities and their families. Emphasizes understanding how disability studies and the disability movement influence social work practice.
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Develops models for managing ethical and legal obligations to clients and others; managing risk; and maintaining ethical, responsible, and self-sustaining practice over a professional career. Examines competing ethical frameworks and material on essential values underlying ethical principles and the basis for ethical and legal regulation of practice.
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Critically examines the program components and empirical research base of selected child mental health treatment program models designed to serve children and youth who present with severe emotional or behavioral disorders. Focuses on treatment models that reflect a "systems care philosophy" and which offer alternatives to traditional services.
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Examines the complex interrelation between faith matters and the practice of mental health professions, including approaches to definitions and assessments.
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Prepares students to participate and provide leadership in grant writing and fundraising for community-based human services. Opportunity to practice skills required for developing a successful grant proposal and planning a successful fundraising program. Identify, cultivate, and develop sources of funding. Students assist in writing a complete grant proposal as final project.
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Provides specialized knowledge and skills for practice with communities experiencing historical trauma. Covers emerging theories of historical trauma, impact of historical trauma on families and communities, and culturally relevant interventions to promote healing. Builds upon the concepts of empowerment practice and indigenous models of social work.
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Examines trauma theory, nature of interpersonal violence, psychodynamic concepts, cognitive behavioral theory, treatment of victims and offenders. Topics include psychological trauma, abuse-specific psychotherapy, multidisciplinary and cognitive behavioral interventions with victims and offenders, effects of interpersonal violence, and counter-transference reactions. Format includes lecture, discussion, case presentations, and presentations by community experts.
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Uses critical analysis to expand Western symptom-oriented grief and loss theory to include multicultural approaches, exploring new constructionist models of meaning-making, narrative biography, and cultural tradition through case studies. Assessment and intervention exercises include journaling, art, and ritual, allowing students to explore how their own grief affects practice.
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Advanced-practice course that builds upon foundation content in HUB, micro- and macro-practice/HBSE sequences, policy, diversity, and research. Grapples with complex mental health service design and delivery issues often informed by ethnocentric paradigms of knowledge and practice that have proven problematic in their general application in our increasingly diverse society.
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Overview of group work and major theorist in the field. Examines differential applicability of methods across diverse populations. Emphasis on developing powers of observation of group process (as opposed to content) and on ability to intervene at the group level (as opposed to individual level). Prerequisite: Group work experience.
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Focuses on involvement in the policy-making process. Students design projects to influence public policy: local level in the fall, state level in the winter, and federal level in the spring. Readings based on policy materials (proposed and final laws, regulations, budgets, advocacy documents). Credit/no credit only.
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Required for School Social Worker certification. Explores theoretical frameworks, current issues in education, individual, group and family practice; organizational context; and systems change. Also covers legal issues, racism and educational outcomes, special education, culturally sensitive practice, advocacy, family involvement, child abuse mandated reporting, collaboration, and ethics.
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Philosophical, theoretical, and practice issues relevant to family-centered social work. Presents family systems theory and a generalized model of engagement, assessment, and treatment. Clinical applications with particular client populations and their presenting problems, such as couples, family crisis, child behavioral problems, and affective disorders.
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Provides knowledge and skills involved in the role of social worker as supervisor and team leader; supervision as a leadership function, power and authority, professional boundaries, staff recruitment, selection, performance evaluation, and addressing staff-related performance problems.
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Applies a multigenerational framework to introduce values, skills, and knowledge necessary for social work practice in long-term care settings across all age groups. Meets at a nearby continuing care community and provides regular opportunities to interact with persons requiring long-term care, their families, and formal caregivers.
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Introduces the study of African-American families from a historical, socio-cultural, and political perspective. Presents various theories for understanding African-American families and addresses an Afrocentric framework for intervention.
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Teaches skills in four contexts: (1) incorporating questions concerning alcohol/drug use in an assessment of new clients, (2) conducting a comprehensive alcohol/drug assessment when a problem has been identified, (3) offering a brief motivational enhancement intervention to ambivalent clients, and (4) delivering cognitive-behavioral counseling focusing on overcoming dependence.
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Examines issues of gender, globalization, and inequality through a gender lens. Topics include global movements of capital (the global factory) and labor (migration, trafficking, etc.), disruption/creation of family forms and gender roles (domestic violence), social welfare, private/public polices, international frames (human rights), resistance, and response.
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