Prerequisites: Grade of C or higher in SOWK 500, SOWK 501, SOWK 502, SOWK 503, SOWK 504 or SOWK 508, SOWK 505, and SOWK 509; P in SWII 530; or Advanced Standing Students, Advanced Standing Online Students, or 5 Year Social Work Students.
This course focuses on learning about clinical social work with children through helping students deeply understand a clinical relationship that children find meaningful in advancing their self-determination. In keeping with the present and future of clinical social work, this course includes a multicultural and global focus.
Outcomes: Demonstrate and apply anti-racist, diversity-informed, and equity-centered perspectives to analyze how cultural, developmental, and systemic factors influence social work practice with children and their families; Integrate and implement evidence-informed theories, developmental frameworks, and assessment tools to engage, assess, and intervene effectively with children and their families across diverse contexts; Evaluate and reflect on practice outcomes by measuring intervention effectiveness and adapting strategies to enhance trauma-informed, ethical, and strengths-based practice with children and families.
This course focuses on learning about clinical social work with children through helping students deeply understand a clinical relationship that children find meaningful in advancing their self-determination. In keeping with the present and future of clinical social work, this course includes a multicultural and global focus.
Outcomes: Demonstrate and apply anti-racist, diversity-informed, and equity-centered perspectives to analyze how cultural, developmental, and systemic factors influence social work practice with children and their families; Integrate and implement evidence-informed theories, developmental frameworks, and assessment tools to engage, assess, and intervene effectively with children and their families across diverse contexts; Evaluate and reflect on practice outcomes by measuring intervention effectiveness and adapting strategies to enhance trauma-informed, ethical, and strengths-based practice with children and families.