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5301. Practice with Individuals, Groups and Families

3.00 credits

Prerequisites: BASC 5390, 5391 and FED 5301, 5351, or Advanced Standing; open to MSW students in IGFP concentration. Corequisite: FED 5302 and 5352, or Advanced Standing.

Grading Basis: Graded

In-depth exploration of the skills of working with individuals, groups, and families. Social work practice with individuals, emphasizes the interdependence between assessment and intervention, the transactional nature of helping, and monitoring and evaluation of practice. Social work practice with groups, focuses on types of groups, leadership, forming and beginning the group, the role of mutual aid and use of program activities. Practice with families give emphasis to the family as a functional unit and the diversity of life style and structure and its capacity to respond to the needs of its members and changing environmental factors.

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