Health and Behavioral Health Policy and Systems
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 course provides students with frameworks for understanding the interrelationship between developments in health and behavioral health policy, delivery systems, and social work practice on micro, mezzo, and macro levels. Practice issues associated with organizational structure, patient-centered care, team and interdisciplinary relations, as well as collaboration and conflict, are considered.
Outcomes: Understand the interrelationship between developments in health and behavioral health policy, delivery systems, and social work practice on micro, mezzo, and macro levels; Examine how policy shapes the experiences of individuals and families, important aspects of care delivery and financing, models of care, tools for analyzing policies and advocacy, financial structures, and financial sustainability, and workforce issues.
This course provides students with frameworks for understanding the interrelationship between developments in health and behavioral health policy, delivery systems, and social work practice on micro, mezzo, and macro levels. Practice issues associated with organizational structure, patient-centered care, team and interdisciplinary relations, as well as collaboration and conflict, are considered.
Outcomes: Understand the interrelationship between developments in health and behavioral health policy, delivery systems, and social work practice on micro, mezzo, and macro levels; Examine how policy shapes the experiences of individuals and families, important aspects of care delivery and financing, models of care, tools for analyzing policies and advocacy, financial structures, and financial sustainability, and workforce issues.