SWGS 6436  Trauma Treatment for Children and Adolescents: Common Concepts, Components and Skills (Clinical Elective)

This course will introduce students to the common concepts underlying evidence-based treatment for traumatized children and adolescents, using a case analysis format.  Trauma is broadly defined, and includes children and adolescents exposed to traumatic events including, but not limited to natural disasters, war, abuse and neglect, medical trauma and witnessing interpersonal crime (e.g. domestic violence) and other traumatic events.  The course will highlight the role of development, culture and empirical evidence in trauma-specific interventions with children, adolescents and their families.   It will address the level of functioning of primary caregiving environments and assess the capacity of the community to facilitate restorative processes. 

This Course meets January 6, 7, 8, 13 and 14 from 9am to 4:30pm
SWGS-6436-00A
Call #14088
Dr. Virginia Strand

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              SWGS 6040 Social Work from the Human Rights Perspective (Transverse Elective)

This course is an introduction to the human rights perspective and an exploration of its intersection with social work values, ethics, theory, and practice. The learner is challenged to examine how adopting the human rights perspective could alter social work’s service provision, administration, research, education, language, policy analysis, and advocacy. 

This course meets January 6, 8, 10, 12, 14. Weekday classes are from 12:30pm to 6:30pm. Saturday class (1/10) is from 9:30am to 4:30pm
SWGS-6040-00A
Call #14089
Dr. Cynthia Poindexter