SW 635 - Social Work Practice With Groups

3 Credit(s)

This clinical course exposes students to an array of the major concepts, techniques, and skills underlying social work practice with groups. The primary goal is to provide students with the clinical competencies and associated practice behaviors to lead groups with children, adolescents, and adults in an agency-based practice setting. Readings, lectures, videos, small group experiences, and assignments are directed at an advanced understanding of group dynamics and group process, techniques of group formation, and leadership. Multiple models for group practice are taught, including psychoanalytically based groups, cognitive-behavioral groups, developmental group counseling, experiential models, psycho-educational groups, and support groups. Finally, the course examines the impact of diversity on group interaction and the relevance of group work theory to organizational and community contexts.
Prerequisite(s): SW 506.