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This advanced level practice course focuses on the clinical skills needed to work with older adults. Contextualized through a review of the historical treatment of older adults, the course explores social service programs designed to aid older adults. Students will understand the biopsychosocial functioning of older adults and critically examine and apply theories to explain, assess, and intervene with older adults. Using the Person-in-Environment framework, the course examines psychological, physical, and social functioning of older adults and treatment options, including individual, family, and group interventions to address the needs of older adults.

This advanced practice course focus on social work treatment and psychotherapy with adults. The structure of psychotherapy is presented and an exploration of effective communication is explored. The role of a therapeutic alliance and engagement in creating a trusting relationship for assessment and intervention is presented. Narrative therapy is explored as a specific model of treatment.

This course focuses on learning about clinical social work with children and adolescents, and their families. This advanced practice course focuses on the social work processes of engagement, assessment, intervention, and evaluation. Students will learn a variety of modalities to work with children and adolescents. The social context of children and adolescents live in will be considered. Additionally, the context of practice or agency setting will be explored.

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to plan and design evaluations, understand various types of program evaluations, use quantitative and qualitative methods, and explore cost benefit analysis. Students will understand various methods of evaluation research, critically analyze multiple approaches, and propose an evaluation study.

This course examines psychoanalytic and psychodynamic theory as they have evolved over time. Beginning with classic psychoanalytic theory, the course additionally covers ego psychology, object relations theories, self-psychology, intersubjectivity, and feminist scholarship. Consideration is given to race and culture related to psychodynamic theories. This course builds on the knowledge from foundation year human behavior courses, providing an in-depth exploration of psychodynamic theories.

This course teaches students the knowledge and skills needed to effectively manage, lead and supervise in an agency setting. Building on foundation year skills, this advanced year course explores strategic planning, effective management, seeking funding, leadership, and administrative and clinical supervision. The content provides students the knowledge, values and ethics, and skills to work in a supervisory position in a human services agency.

This course builds on the foundation social welfare policy course, exploring in greater depth social policy impacting adults and older adults in society. Students concentrating with Adults and Older Adults take this advanced policy course to further their understanding of federal, state, and local laws and policies and systems that effect clients at the macro level. The course explores the purpose of policies, incidence and prevalence of social problems, and strategies to enhance policies leading to increased well-being for adults and older adults. The course examines issues of social justice and human rights.

This course builds on the foundation social welfare policy course, exploring in greater depth social policy impacting children and families in society. Students concentrating with Children and Adolescents take this advanced policy course to further their understanding of federal, state, and local laws and policies and systems that effect clients at the macro level. The course explores the purpose of policies, incidence and prevalence of social problems, and strategies to enhance policies leading to increase resilience in children and adolescents. Based in a risk and resilience model, the course examines issues of social justice and human rights

This course builds on the foundation knowledge from human behavior and practices classes in the foundation year. The course explores the theoretical underpinning of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and teaches students the knowledge and skills necessary for clinical social work practice. Students explore the use of CBT throughout the therapeutic process, from engagement, assessment, and intervention. Finally, students learn how to evaluate practice when using this approach.

This course examines the history of interventions with families within a social context. Students will learn to assess family functioning using an ecological systems approach. Models of family therapy are explored, teaching students the skills of intervention. The changing structure of families is examined in relationship to families headed by same sex couples, single parents, and race, ethnicity and culture.

This is the first course in a two-semester sequence that provides an opportunity for students to integrate advanced year social work course content and field internship experiences.
In the advanced year students are placed in field internships which are consistent with their chosen population concentration. The integrative seminar is taken concurrently with the field placement, and prepares students to integrate skills learned in chosen theory and practice courses with their field experience. The seminar provides a forum for the sharing of clinical cases and practice experiences, the development of peer supervision skills, and increased critical thinking and problem solving capacities. The clinical seminars, discussions, and class assignments provide the students opportunities to gain professional and peer feedback regarding the application of clinical social work to clinical practice.

This is the second course in a two-semester sequence that provides an opportunity for students to integrate advanced year social work course content and field internship experiences.
In the advanced year students are placed in field internships which are consistent with their chosen population concentration. The integrative seminar is taken concurrently with the field placement, and prepares students to integrate skills learned in chosen theory and practice courses with their field experience. The seminar provides a forum for the sharing of clinical cases and practice experiences, the development of peer supervision skills, and increased critical thinking and problem solving capacities. The clinical seminars, discussions, and class assignments provide the students opportunities to gain professional and peer feedback regarding the application of clinical social work to clinical practice.