SOWK 620 Families & Groups: Children & Youth

This course teaches engagement, assessment, and intervention strategies for social work practice with children, youth, and families. Students prepare for clinical practice by examining their own family system. They learn the role of therapeutic groups and how to form and facilitate them in practice with children, youth, and families. Students are invited to understand and apply evidence-informed theories and interventions for social work practice with families and groups, and to integrate these approaches into practice with children, youth, and families. Students learn to address and respond to violence within family systems. They acknowledge the complexities and variations present in modern family structures. Social workers understand how trauma, bias, power, privilege, and personal values and experiences can influence mental health practice with children and youth in group settings. Prerequisite: SOWK 571, prior to or concurrent, or advanced standing.