SW 865 Family Therapy (Fall: 3)
Prerequisite:
SW 762
Corequisite:
SW 933 or permission
Required for Clinical Social Work students in Health and Mental Health Field-of-Practice
Concentration with a Mental Health focus; elective for others.
An advanced course designed to integrate family therapy theories of practice
and intervention techniques. Throughout the course critical issues relative
to power, gender and race will be interwoven along with outcome effectiveness,
research, and evaluation. Emphasis will be placed on the adaptation of the
family process to stressors of chronic illness, aging, addictions, and interpersonal
violence. The strengths as well as the problems of minority families, families
living in poverty, blended families, adoptive families and families of same
sex parents will be reviewed.
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Last Updated: 03-FEB-09