Social Group Work with Children and Youth. Advanced theory-based models and skills for children, youth, and their families. Direct practice methods with groups of children and youth in the context of their environment. Social Work Community-Based Practice with Children and Youth. Preventive and remedial interventions for vulnerable children and youth facing problems such as teen pregnancy, substance abuse, abuse and neglect.
Community needs assessment, intervention, and evaluation.
Seminar on Theories of Social Work Practice. Critical analysis of current social work practice theories, empirically based current practice trends, problems in the delivery of social work services, and problems in current practice and possible means for their solution. Clinical Research Seminar I. 5 hours. Conduct of nomothetic clinical research. Topics will include hypothesis development, experimental and quasi-experimental group research designs, logic of scientific inference, internal and external validity considerations.