Health & Mental Health Concentration

Our primary goal within the Health & Mental Health Concentration is to prepare you to enter the workplace with a tangible set of leadership skills tailored to your chosen practice and to health or mental health careers.

You will receive specialized knowledge and skills in assessment, interventions, policy, program planning, and financial management. Clinical students focus on treatment with individuals, couples, families, and small groups, developing skills relevant to particular problems and cultural contexts. Macro students specialize on resource development, budgeting, accounting, and use of technology in non-profit or public organizations.

Our health graduates typically work in hospitals and health clinics in the full range of care, while mental health graduates often choose in-patient psychiatric hospitals, outpatient mental health clinics, and substance abuse centers. Students also pursue careers in schools, in prisons, and working with the homeless.

Clinical Social Work with a focus on Mental Health

Required courses include:
SW 865 Family Therapy
SW 817 Health and Mental Health Policy

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Clinical Social Work with a focus on Health

Required courses include:
SW 873 Psychosocial Dimensions of Health and Medical Care Practice
SW 817 Health and Mental Health Policy

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Macro Social Work with a focus on Health or Mental Health

Required courses include:
SW 897 Planning for Health and Mental Health Services
SW 817 Health and Mental Health Policy

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