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SWK 782: Advanced Social Work Practice
With Groups
3 credits
Group work practice will be examined in depth with application to social work within an agency context. The course creates a link with the foundation practices courses taught in the first year, as well as content taught in the foundation human behavior and social environment courses. Emphasis will be on addressing conceptual understanding, analytical process and interactional skills necessary for group work practice.
Learning Goals
Upon completion of course, students will demonstrate the following knowledge and application of skills in working with groups:1. Planning, assessment, practice and evaluation of social work practice with groups.2. Agency and organizational impact in developing groups, and the ability to apply negotiation skills including advocacy, mediation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and systems change efforts which will lead to provision of enhanced group services as an essential approach in various settings.3. The impact of diversity i.e. ethnicity, race, religion/spirituality, gender, age, sexual orientation and other issues on group planning, assessment and intervention.4. A range of theories and group practice models.5. Dynamics and interventions appropriate to the beginning, middle and endings of groups.6. Group dynamics and processes (including leadership and member roles) in planning and implementing interventions with groups.7. Evidence-based and promising group interventions to identify and build client strengths.8. Values and ethics specific to social work with groups, including those that impact and emerge through the group experience.9. Social work role as agent of change, working on connections between group and community practice to promote social justice, equity, and enhance functioning and improve social conditions.
*The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this
course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of
information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a
specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start
of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown
here.