Prerequisites: Grade of C or higher in SOWK 500, SOWK 501, SOWK 502, SOWK 503, SOWK 504, SOWK 505, SOWK 509, and SWII 530S; P in SWII 530; or Advanced Standing Students or 5 Year Social Work Students
This seminar builds on the student's knowledge of short-term treatment, expanding this knowledge and skill toward understanding, and the practice of brief treatment as a modality of social work intervention. It examines the essential components of brief treatment (task-centered, crisis intervention, brief psychotherapy) with individual clients.
Outcomes: Introduce students to core theoretical concepts, values, and competencies that characterize planned short-term psychotherapy; Apply time-limited approaches to brief psychodynamic, crisis, cognitive behavioral, Motivational Interviewing, and solution-focused treatments.
This seminar builds on the student's knowledge of short-term treatment, expanding this knowledge and skill toward understanding, and the practice of brief treatment as a modality of social work intervention. It examines the essential components of brief treatment (task-centered, crisis intervention, brief psychotherapy) with individual clients.
Outcomes: Introduce students to core theoretical concepts, values, and competencies that characterize planned short-term psychotherapy; Apply time-limited approaches to brief psychodynamic, crisis, cognitive behavioral, Motivational Interviewing, and solution-focused treatments.