SW 578 Social Work Practicum Instruction IV

This course provides students an advanced understanding of how to engage, assess, and intervene with clients and client systems and to gather data from their work with a designated group of clients in order to evaluate efficacy of their interventions. Students then formulate a research problem statement and design an intervention based on an analysis of client data. This course also builds on concepts and theories covered earlier in the curriculum, through the student’s experiences in their internships, combined with their study of professional values (see NASW Code of Ethics), knowledge of normative and disordered mental health, human development, and historical and contemporary injustices perpetrated against vulnerable and marginalized communities.