SW 7710: Social Work Group Practice

3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission to MSW program.
This generalist practice course provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential for the development and facilitation of groups in diverse clinical practice settings. This course provides an understanding of the distinction between treatment and task groups, the stages of the group process, the theoretical frameworks/perspectives, leadership styles, and fundamental direct practice skill-sets essential for group facilitation in clinical settings.

Course Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

The values and ethics that guide professional practice with groups.
The importance of applying Use-of-Self with group in diverse populations and practice settings.
Critically plan, develop, and analyze the overall group process.
Clinical assessment (e.g., joining, engagement, facilitation, etc.), approach, and evaluation skills and strategies in group practice.
Critically analyze and evaluate theoretical constructs and their cultural implications.
Analyze major group practice theories by exploring theoretical principles for working with groups and therapeutic intervention techniques congruent with group treatment theory.
Compare and contrast a variety of group treatment approaches and the appropriate application of group treatment techniques when working with varies populations.