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
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.