SW 521LEC - Interventions II

Interventions II builds students’ generalist practice skills developed in Interventions I and shifts the emphasis to target systems at the mezzo and macro levels of practice. A goal of Interventions II is to further anchor the students’ professional social work development in evidence-based, trauma-informed and human rights perspective practice. Interventions II provides students with the opportunity to explicitly integrate theory, research and practice with diverse populations anchored in an anti-racist and anti-oppression framework. We will focus on the interpersonal skills necessary to facilitate the social work processes of: (1) engaging a client system in a relationship, (2) assessing the problem situation in an ecological context, (3) setting intervention goals and objectives, (4) selecting effective implementation strategies, (5) evaluating the results of interventions, and (6) terminating the relationship between the client system and worker in mezzo and macro levels of practice. The contribution of this course to the overall core foundation/advanced curriculum will be addressed.

Credits: 3

Requisites: Pre-Requisite: SW 520.