Field Instruction III and IV require a minimum of 640 hours. Field Instruction III and IV require a minimum of 640 hours. This elective course emphasizes advanced social work practice knowledge, skills, and values as applied to individuals, families, and groups coping with chronic, terminal, disabling, and catastrophic illness in health care settings. Attention is given to the differential impact of and responses to illness specific to special populations, such as minorities, gays and lesbians, women, new arrivals, the disabled, and elderly. This elective presents a bio-psychosocial model for assessment and treatment of persons with substance abuse problems.
Specific emphasis is on differential diagnosis and treatment of minorities and special populations.
This elective focuses on direct social work practice with older persons and their families and with intervention in their environment in their behalf. Older persons are understood in the context of the social, political, and economic realities of their lives. This elective introduces students to the psychological and social development of women. This course covers the causes and effects of handicapping conditions in children, including developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, and mental retardation, along with a study of their families. In addition, legal and political forces, as well as the agencies which serve this population, are identified.