SWK 626

Advanced Generalist Practice with Communities

SWK 501, SWK 502, SWK 503, SWK 504, SWK 505, SWK 506, SWK 507, SWK 508, SWK 509, SWK 510, SWK 621, SWK 624, and SWK 625; or permission of the program; or advanced standing.Students extend and reinforce knowledge and apply at advanced level their competency in demonstrating ethical and professional behavior in advanced generalist practice with communities of various kinds, including neighborhoods, membership organizations, organizational constituencies, vulnerable populations, oppressed communities, and various other entities. Students engage diversity and difference in practice with communities. While engaging in advanced generalist practice with communities, 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 communities. 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 communities. 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 communities and constituencies, to select appropriate intervention strategies rooted in assessment, research knowledge, and values and preferences of communities and constituencies.

Units: 3.0