SOCWK 300 - Generalist Assessment & Intervention

4 credit(s)
This course provides an opportunity for students to begin developing engagement and assessment skills for working with individuals, families, and groups at each stage of the planned change process. Students will explore ethical decision making and apply ethics to a decision making model within a micro level counseling setting. Students will be able to explain how diversity and intersectionality shape human experiences and assess identity development, analyzing equity and
inclusion within generalist micro social work settings. Students will be introduced to the plan change process implementing biopsychosocial assessments, problem analysis, care planning, intervention, evaluation, and termination. The course content and associated readings and assignments are designed to prepare the beginning social worker for entry level, generalist practice grounded in anti-oppressive practice with conceptualization of client systems incorporating evaluation for how racism and oppression shape human experiences and how these two constructs influence practice at the individual, family, group, organizational, and community levels. Attention will be focused on a holistic foundation for practice, incorporating general systems theory, ecological ideas, and professional ethical behavior.
Prerequisite(s): SOCWK 201, and SOCWK 320 or PSY 281 all with a minimum C- grade.