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- SSW CP 759: Introduction to Clinical Social Work Practice
In this foundation clinical practice course, students learn principles and methods for assessment and intervention with individuals, groups and families. Competencies include establishing and maintaining a helping relationship, interviewing, contracting and goal setting, treatment planning and implementation. Students are able to apply appropriate interventions at various stages of the therapeutic relationship for various types of clients in an urban social context. In-class skill practice includes developing rapport, using a strengths perspective, monitoring self-disclosure, reaching for feelings, containing affect, focusing and summarizing. - SSW CP 762: Advanced Group Work
Building on CP 771, the course elaborates the idea of the group-as-a-whole and focuses intensively on the therapeutic tasks of group formation, attention to structure and maintenance, facilitation of individual need satisfaction, and responsiveness to the agency and community environment. Using various theoretical frameworks and the integration of research findings, students analyze interactions and content of groups from their internships. They apply critical thinking skills and modify their interventions to meet the needs of group members from a range of backgrounds. - SSW CP 764: Group Dynamics
Students as a class learn experientially about groups and about themselves as group leaders by assuming major responsibility for developing into a group and reflecting on the group?s processes, themes, structure, critical events, roles, and leadership styles. This involves critical examination of small group theory as well as students' use of the dynamic experience to refine and enhance their use of self as group workers - SSW CP 770: Clinical Practice with Individuals
Deepening their skills of differential assessment, formulation and intervention with individuals , students assess client cases and develop intervention plans. Three therapeutic approaches are used for this work: Cognitive, Behavioral and Psychodynamic. Students present cases from the field for analysis and class discussion through these lenses: Cognitive, (focus on the domains of thoughts, feelings and behavior), Behavioral (focus on monitoring and reinforcing positive behavior), and Psychodynamic (focus on dysfunctional childhood patterns that get repeated in the present). Demonstration videos and in-class skills practice show clinician approaches from these three perspectives. Students will use the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to make initial diagnoses. - SSW CP 771: Clinical Practice with Groups
Students build on skills learned in CP 759 by examining group work methods with a range of client populations, in various community and clinical settings, and with differing client problems/issues of concern. Attention is paid to race, culture, gender, and class and to social and environmental stressors as students make decisions about group composition, contracting, problem solving and successfully terminating groups - SSW CP 772: Clinical Practice with Families
Students build on family theory, dynamics and skills learned in CP 759. They conduct family assessments, viewing the family as a system with its own structure, roles, rules and life cycle. Attention is paid to therapist skills of joining and reflecting, employing the genogram to help families think differently about their history, identifying strengths and resilience in the family as a whole, motivating the family to change, and facilitating communication shifts and experimentation with new behavior. - SSW CP 785: Family Therapy
Building on CP 770, this course compares and contrasts major models of family therapy relevant to urban family practice, deepening students? understanding of theory and their assessment and treatment skills. Special attention is paid to engaging urban families, working with multiple generations of a family, addressing individuals and families in a multi-systemic context, and using the clinician role differentially to address the needs of diverse families. Demonstration video, case consultation and in-session skill practice enhance students? proficiency in helping families with communication, organization and expression of feelings. - SSW CP 787: Clinical Practice with Couples
Students review theories of couple dynamics and practice methods for assessing and treating dyads. Attention is paid to worker-couple dynamics and worker self-awareness in an effort to help students avoid allying with one member against another. Students apply brief as well as longer term methods in working with couples, and consider modifications for working with gay or lesbian couples, couples with diverse cultural backgrounds, divorced couples, and couples at various stages of the life cycle. - SSW CP 791: Seminar: Family Therapy
This is the second course in the sequence for FTCP students, building on CP 785 by providing increased depth and range of content as well as examining the research base for family systems approaches. It expands students? knowledge of family therapy models and contemporary issues in the family therapy field. Students integrate and differentially apply therapy approaches to diverse populations-at-risk who are experiencing a range of social problems. Students take more responsibility for their own learning, developing their own model of family-centered social work practice through seminar-style interactions and individualized and group application assignments. - SSW CP 794: Clinical Practice with Children
This course focuses on differential assessment and treatment of children and adolescents. It emphasizes activation of an affective relationship, with special attention to transference and countertransference, the distinction between narrative truth and historic truth, and special treatment concerns in work with severely disturbed children. Assessment focuses on differentiation of functional, organic, and ethno-cultural factors, and specialized techniques of treatment include dramatization, metaphorical communication, and various play techniques and therapeutic games. - SSW CP 795: Cognitive and Behavioral Treatment
Students learn the theoretical frameworks underlying cognitive and behavioral treatment for adults and children including operant procedures for use with dysfunctional behavior in children. Students learn skills-training, exposure procedures, and cognitive therapy models for several disorders. The course addresses client/therapist issues and the use of behavioral methods in group settings. Students conduct a behavioral analysis and single case study of a current case or problem situation. - SSW CP 799: Brief and Time-Effective Treatment
This course surveys a range of brief treatment models supportive of work in today's time-limited or managed care settings. Students explore and contrast brief treatment methods and examine biases toward longer-term work through readings, group discussions, and case vignettes. Topics include models of brief treatment; therapist as a catalyst versus analyst; techniques of client engagement; long-term problems as foci in brief treatment; homework assignments; and managing resistances. - SSW CP 801: Clinical Practice with Adolescents in Social Context
This course builds on knowledge and skills for clinical practice with adolescents, but specifically addresses psychosocial issues with economically disadvantaged and troubled urban adolescents. Theoretical material is drawn from a strengths perspective, and the perspectives of ecological-life cycle, psychodynamic, and risk-resiliency. Empathy is viewed as a fundamental integrative construct. Particular attention is paid to social context and to concepts of sexuality, individuation, differentiation, identity foreclosure, moratorium, developmental domains, and the formulation of a social identity. Methods are demonstrated for collaborating with adolescents in setting goals and choosing interventions. Methods to facilitate change include therapeutic relational work (individual and group), case management, and adolescent involvement in self-efficacy skill enhancement programs. - SSW CP 803: CLINICAL PRACTICE with ADULT TRAUMA
Students learn different theoretical approaches to trauma and examine clinical strategies for intervening with traumatized adults from diverse backgrounds. Sources of trauma including natural disasters, the refugee and immigrant experience, interpersonal violence, and the accumulation of traumatic events over the life span are discussed in terms of their physical and emotional consequences. Students examine diagnostic issues including PTSD and complex PTSD, and co-occurring psychiatric disorders. Evidence-based interventions and emerging areas of practice with traumatized adult populations will be highlighted. Larger social, cultural and political forces are considered in shaping both exposure to and recovery from traumatic stressors. Finally, the impact of trauma work on clinicians and strategies for self-care and reducing burnout will be a theme of the course. - 党卫军
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- SSW CP 807: Clinical Practice with Older Adults
This course reviews life cycle and other developmental theories informing clinical practice with aging populations. Discussion highlights the impact of poverty, racism, ageism, and changing economics on the bio-psycho-social phenomenology of aging in urban environments. Special issues related to mental health, substance abuse, and cognitive impairment in this population are reviewed. Students learn methods for interviewing, assessing, diagnosing and intervening with older people, their families, and their networks are taught through case analysis and role play. - 党卫军
- SSW CP 809: Alcoholism and Drug Abuse: Identification and Early Intervention
Students learn methods for identification, diagnosis, intervention, and referral of substance-abusing clients and clients with co-occurring mental health problems in a range of settings. The course helps students work with clients who are unaware of their problem or not ready to address it, as well as clients in treatment and those in relapse. Students take drinking/drug histories, assess clients? stage of readiness for change, estimate problem severity, and negotiate treatment goals. Attention is paid to family issues, relapse prevention, identification and use of evidence-based treatments, and an integrated approach to treatment including use of 12-Step Programs. Students present cases from the field. - SSW ET 751: Social Work Ethics Year I Online Program
This series of required seminars is intended to inspire the moral imagination of social work students, and prepare them for competent and compassionate ethical practice as social work professionals. Social Work Ethics examines the issues of social work professionalism, the process of becoming a social work professional, the tensions inherent in the goals of social work, and the ways these interrelate to produce conflicts of values and ethics in social work practice. Students in the Online Program take the Social Work Ethics course ( ET 751, 752, 753), over three years, in a series of one credit seminars, each with a distinct focus . ET751 addresses basic issues of social work professionalism, including familiarization with social work values, the larger context of social work ethics, and the role of ethics in reducing harms to clients and promoting social justice.
