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SW 421

Social Work Practice with Groups

Catalog2026-2027
Credits3 units
LevelUpper Division
Average gradeA
Standard

Overview

Description

This course prepares students to practice ethically and effectively with groups. The course builds social work skills, knowledge, and values in social groupwork contexts and introduces students to group process theories, methods and strategies. Students will use evidence-informed and culturally responsive methods to facilitate anti-racist and anti-oppressive group work practice.

Requirements

Prerequisites

  • Admission to the professional sequence.

Corequisites

SW 480
Original catalog text

Prerequisites

Admission to the professional sequence.

Corequisites

SW 480

Units

Lecture3

Catalog Details

Offering

Offered: Every Fall

Terms

fall

Restrictions

Admission to the professional sequence.

Attributes

Standard

Learning Outcomes

  • reflect on personal values, experiences, and biases and develop professional boundaries within professional interactions.
  • apply anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice principles to practice effectively and ethically with group members.
  • interpret ethical frameworks to explore complex ethical dilemmas in practice.
  • demonstrate task and treatment groupwork facilitation skills through evaluation, rapport-building, member engagement and change.
  • initiate evidence-based practices for work with groups.
  • connect conceptual and theoretical models of group process with social work competencies.
  • apply group planning steps to group development.