SWO 711 Working With Complex/Diverse Populations

This course builds on Practice 1 and Practice 2 content to examine clinical processes working with complex and diverse populations. Building on critical skills of inquiry and analysis of critical race theory and intersectionality students will explore the impact of clinical processes (e.g., intersubjectivity, therapeutic relationship, transference and countertransference, containment, holding, the use of defenses, hope, justice etc) when working with complex and diverse populations. The course will apply tenets of radical social work and a decolonizing lens to explore processes of change with complex and diverse populations.