Graduate Courses
SOWK 615: Social Work Practice with Adolescents
Description
Social workers encounter adolescents in a variety of settings, including schools, mental health, child welfare, medical, juvenile justice, and substance abuse treatment. This course seeks to prepare students for direct intervention with adolescents and their families in these settings and within young people’s own social contexts.
To that end, students will be engaged in an overview of adolescent psychological and neurobiological development, encouraged to consider the impact of the environment on adolescent experience, and offered several theoretical perspectives for conceptualizing work with adolescents. Students will then learn intervention options specific to common presenting concerns, within the context of a strengths-based perspective.
