SWRK 4000 - Social Work Practice: The Problem Solving Process with Individuals and Families

This is the first of three generalist practice courses within the BSW program. Students will learn practice theories and intervention strategies for use with individuals and families. The course focuses on problems related to violence, substance abuse, and crisis as they pertain to intervention with individuals and families. The aim of this course is to assist students in building upon the assessment skills they learned in SWRK 3200 and translate assessment data into intervention strategies. The problem-solving process serves as the basis of intervention strategies for this course. Students will also utilize a person-in-environment framework as well as focus on client strengths consistent with the life-cycle development perspective as learned in SWRK 3500. Emphasizing the generalist intervention model, students learn social work roles including advocate, facilitator, case manager, and broker. Students will be expected to demonstrate an ability to formulate case plans including intake, assessment plan of service, evaluation of intervention, and termination of services. Methods of practice evaluation are presented, including single-system design.

Prerequisites & Corequisites: Prerequisites: ENGL 1050 and SWRK 3500. Corequisites: SWRK 3510 and SWRK 3650.

Credits: 3 hours

Restrictions: This course is restricted to Social Work majors.