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SW 420

Social Work Practice with Individuals

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelUpper Division
Average gradeA-
Standard

Overview

Description

Emphasizes the application of skills, knowledge and values to social work practice with individuals.

Requirements

Prerequisites

  • Admission to the professional sequence.
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

Prerequisite(s): Admission to the professional sequence.

Units

Lecture3

Catalog Details

Offering

Offered: Every Fall

Terms

fall

Core

CO12

Restrictions

Admission to the professional sequence.

Attributes

Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • examine the effects of personal biases and judgments on professional interactions.
  • maintain healthy professional boundaries in all professional interactions.
  • engage in continuous self-reflection and professional-improvement.
  • enact the generalist social work roles in the context of helping relationships.
  • identify evidence-based practice for work with individuals.
  • support assessments, case plans and intervention strategies with empirical evidence.
  • prepare accurate and non-biased written assessments, reports, case plans and documentation.
  • apply models of ethical reasoning to explore complex ethical dilemmas in practice.