SWK 629 Advanced Child and Family Practice: Systems and Groups
This second of three Practice classes within the Advanced Child Welfare Practice concentration, will prepare students to engage in the field of child welfare with a strong client-centered, strengths-based approach, relating to systems and group work. Students will examine theories of practice with groups and systems that interact with the child welfare context, considering the factors that impact child welfare outcomes. Students will create avenues for systems and group work to emerge within their practice, developing interventions that can be applied to real-life or simulated practice. Students will be challenged to self-reflect and critique personal experiences with their own group experiences and systems involvement to address prejudice and bias within the field. This course is reserved for students enrolled in the Advanced Child Welfare Practice concentration.
This course meets the following MSW program competencies: 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.