Sustainability Course Repository

Second course in the three-course sequence of generalist practice methods. Focuses on the values and ethics, knowledge base and intervention methods foundational to practice with groups. Skills In group participation and leadership. Accepted social work majors only (post candidacy).

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Third course in a three-course sequence of generalist practice methods. Focuses on the values and ethics, knowledge base and intervention methods foundational to practice with organizations and communities. Working with organizations and communities to solve problems through assessment, planning, intervening, and evaluating. Accepted social work majors only (post candidacy).

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An overview of issues central to understanding and intervening upon intimate partner violence in the United States. An Introductionduction to current theories, research, and implications for policy, prevention, and practice. Exploration of local services and legal remedies for domestic violence victims, perpetrators and their children.

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This course examines homelessness in Seattle and King County from social, economic, political, and ethical perspectives. Consideration will be given to the causes, characteristics, and potential cures of/for homelessness. Presentations from homeless and formerly homeless people, service providers, and local public officials responsible for policy responses to homelessness, are a key feature of this course

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History, scope, physiological, social, psychological, and family aspects of alcohol and other drug problems. Impaired driving. Progression and symptoms of addiction; types of alcoholics. Nature of addictive diseases: causality, treatment, and prevention.

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An examination of current ecological influences and their impact on culturally diverse children and youth in America including poverty and homelessness, exposure to community violence, child abuse and neglect, teenage parenting, and substance abuse in families. Exploration of child welfare policy and services, emphasizing the continuum of child welfare interventions.

Read more about SOCW-4350 : Social Work with Children and Youth

This is the first in a 3-course practice sequence designed to prepare students with the generalist knowledge, values, and skills to work with individuals and families. The course will draw upon theories of human and family development across the lifecycle as well as an ecological approach to understand human behavior within its environmental context. Emphasis is placed on the importance of the impact of the larger social and cultural environment on life challenges as well as on the helping relat...

Read more about SOCW-5110 : Generalist Practice I

This is the second in a 3-course practice sequence designed to prepare students with the generalist knowledge, values, and skills for generalist social work practice. This Introductionductory course in group work practice examines theories about groups and group processes, values and ethical issues in group practice, and uses of task and treatment groups in a broad range of settings with diverse client groups. Students will learn effective group practice skills and practice them via in-class rol...

Read more about SOCW-5120 : Generalist Practice II

This is the third in a 3-course practice sequence designed to prepare students with the generalist knowledge, values, and skills for generalist social work practice. This course provides conceptual frameworks, knowledge and skills for clinical social workers to contribute to changes in organizations, communities and policies to promote social and economic justice. The course will Introductionduce selected concepts from organizational theory to understand and bring about change in community and o...

Read more about SOCW-5130 : Generalist Practice III

This course focuses on personal and professional development toward social work practice for social justice and complements the rest of the social work graduate curriculum by locating the self in a professional and political context. The purpose of this course is to enable students to articulate a personal-professional stance toward social work practice for social justice. This course aims to help students develop critical understanding of major theories of justice as well as the competencies of...

Read more about SOCW-5210 : Ethical Professional Formation