Designed to enhance professional judgment and clinical decision-making concerning child and adolescent clients, this course provides knowledge and skills for assessment and intervention concerning a broad range of biopsychosocial disorders, including situationally precipitated conditions or disorders. An integrative, comparative, and analytic approach is used to explore the relationship between these conditions and the matrix created by biology, society, culture and environment, and to apply this knowledge to assessment and treatment.

This online course examines social work practice theories and intervention skills, applicable to practice with survivors of abuse and trauma. An emphasis will also be placed on the application of social work ethics and values when working with survivors of abuse and trauma, particularly as it relates to the management of vicarious trauma.

This online course examines social work practice theories and intervention skills, applicable to practice with survivors of abuse and trauma. An emphasis will also be placed on the application of social work ethics and values when working with survivors of abuse and trauma, particularly as it relates to the management of vicarious trauma.

This online course examines social work practice theories and intervention skills, applicable to practice with survivors of abuse and trauma. An emphasis will also be placed on the application of social work ethics and values when working with survivors of abuse and trauma, particularly as it relates to the management of vicarious trauma.

Trauma-informed practice skills promote client post-traumatic growth and healing. This advanced practice course explores trauma-informed engagement, assessment, treatment and intervention, and termination strategies; analyzes the effectiveness of evidence-based and somatic treatment models; and explores treatment implications for micro practice.

Trauma-informed practice skills promote client post-traumatic growth and healing. This advanced practice course explores trauma-informed engagement, assessment, treatment and intervention, and termination strategies; analyzes the effectiveness of evidence-based and somatic treatment models; and explores treatment implications for micro practice.

Trauma-informed practice skills promote client post-traumatic growth and healing. This advanced practice course explores trauma-informed engagement, assessment, treatment and intervention, and termination strategies; analyzes the effectiveness of evidence-based and somatic treatment models; and explores treatment implications for micro practice.

This course offers a survey of the major mental disorders typically encountered by social workers in clinical practice and other areas of practice such as protective services, family services, and court-related service areas. It is designed to increase the social worker's familiarity with diagnostic classifications, criteria, etiologies, and the epidemiology of disorders and social work treatment for disorders.

This course is designed to prepare the social worker to conduct culturally sensitive, structured, semi-structured, and observational clinical assessments of adults, children, and families. Special attention will be paid to engagement techniques, assessment skills, treatment planning, and best-practice intervention models. Students will learn to develop and implement Motivational Interviewing skills, treatment plans as they relate to the assessment, and evidence-based interventions.

This course provides social work students an opportunity for advanced study of differential diagnostic assessment using the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The course also provides an opportunity for more detailed study of the more common mental disorders seen in social work practice. Students will engage in the advanced study of clinical decision making as it pertains to current mental health assessment, with special attention made to anti-racist and anti-oppressive inclusive mental health assessment.