SW 557 Clinical Practice With Immigrants and Refugees
Clinical Practice with Immigrants and Refugees requires specialized knowledge about the unique issues of these populations. It also requires specialized adaptations and applications of services and interventions that are grounded in culturally responsive, flexible and when appropriate, community-based methods. This 3 credit course will provide a comprehensive perspective of social work practice-a perspective that entails examination of the multiple factors that affect immigrants and refugees and relevant practice approaches. The course draws on multiple theoretical perspectives including empowerment, ecological, psychodynamic, trauma and systemic approaches to practice. Knowledge from political science and history, for example, facilitates an understanding of the influence of immigration policy on the lives of immigrants. This course meets the requirement for a clinical practice elective and a trauma specialization.
Prerequisite
SW-401 and SW-411, or Advanced Standing