SW 7924: Clinical Practice with Children and Adolescents

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: All MSW Foundation-Level courses, or Advanced Standing in MSW program.
This second-year advanced practice clinical course builds upon foundation courses taught during Year 1 of the MSW Program. The course will focus on working with children and adolescents, ages birth to early 20’s, in addition to working with the family as a unit. The course will emphasize using social work methods that are age and developmental stage appropriate. The course will emphasize an ecological-developmental framework anchored in attachment, developmental theory, and family systems (ego psychology, object relations, and systems), and the interactions between biological, psychological, social, and environmental factors that impact children and adolescents. Students will be introduced to the principles of human brain development known as the neuro-developmental perspective.