CSWRK 5090 Social Work Practice with Groups and Families
Throughout this course application of social work values, knowledge, and methods with families and small groups is emphasized. Assessment, planning, intervention strategies, resource utilization, and evaluation are examined. Role-plays and group processing are utilized. Students learn how to construct many group formats including task and treatment groups and how to mobilize the resources of existing groups. Primary focus is given to those dynamics that are common to all groups, and students will begin to explore how leadership and issues of difference (gender, race, sexual orientation, age, culture, class, ability, spirituality, immigrant status) affect group processes.