Required for all Administration and Planning and Social Development students. Review of salient professional issues. Seminar examining health, illness, disability, stress reactions, and psychopathology. These states are examined from a developmental perspective and with a focus on implications for social work practice. Examines a range of organizational theories that relate to the dynamics of complex organizations.
Attention is given to social service bureaucracies in public and private sectors.
Stability and change are addressed in terms of life cycles, theories, strategies, and tactics that impinge on change processes. Techniques for empowerment of community groups and historically oppressed populations are explored. Required for all Administration and Planning and Social Development students. Theory and method of research applied to the design of research projects with a developmental enhancement, program operations, or social development focus. Methods of helping individuals cope with personal and social problems.