Registration is restricted to concentration year students. Students will learn the contemporary practices of empowerment social work with groups including those with purposes of therapeutic change, identity development, skill attainment, interpersonal support, rehabilitation, social control, or social action. Students will develop advanced practice skills through group leadership and group membership activities, observations, readings, discussions, and reflective journaling. Students will plan, initiate, lead, and evaluate a social work group in the field, work, or other pre-arranged setting. Recognizing group work as a key to achieving social justice, this course emphasizes work with populations at risk.
Registration is restricted to concentration year students.
3 credits The goal of this course is to provide information about the multiple factors which affect human biological growth, personality development, and behavior. Human development is studied within the context of those biological, psychological, and socio-cultural systems which affect, and are affected by, human beings. Incorporated into this context is current knowledge related to ethnic minorities and oppressed groups. In connection with such course content, attention is also focused on differences in values and life styles, and the issues that they generate for the understanding of human development, and for the role of the social work practitioner. 3 credits Aspects of human behavior are examined in their socio-cultural context emphasizing structure, class, ethnicity, race, sexuality, and age as major themes.