SWK 625

Advanced Generalist Practice with Individuals and Families

SWK 501, SWK 502, SWK 503, SWK 504, SWK 505, SWK 506, SWK 507, SWK 508, SWK 509, and SWK 510; or permission of the program; or advanced standing admission.Students extend and reinforce knowledge and apply at advanced level their competency in demonstrating ethical and professional behavior in advanced generalist practice with individual and families. Students engage in diversity and difference in practice. While engaging in advanced generalist practice with individuals and families, they also demonstrate their competencies in advancing human rights and social, economic, and environmental justice. At the same time, they demonstrate competencies in practice-informed research and research-informed practice, by using and translating research evidence to inform and improve their advanced generalist practice with individuals and families. In this course, students focus on competencies related to engaging, assessing and intervening with individuals, couples and families. In the process, students demonstrate additional progress towards developing an advanced competency in intervening with individuals and families. They demonstrate their ability, based upon mutually agreed-on intervention goals and objectives, and based on the critical assessment of strengths, needs, and challenges within clients and constituencies, to select appropriate intervention strategies rooted in assessment, research knowledge, and values and preferences of clients and constituencies.

Units: 3.0