SWK 602 - Behavioral Health Care Settings Credits: 3

Extends and elaborates the advanced generalist approach to social work practice to a special field of practice. Introduces the social worker’s role in behavioral health care and the policy issues that impact on practice. Focuses on four content areas: 1) what the social worker’s role is in adult and child behavioral health care settings; 2) historic and current policy that affect behavioral health care services; 3) current research in behavioral health care related issues and 4) international models of care. The special field is studied through the examination of curricular areas: human behavior, practice, policy, and services, research and special populations. Designed to help prepare students for advanced generalist social work practice with client systems and social resource systems relating to mental or behavioral health. Social workers are frequently involved in the delivery of services to people and families troubled by mental disorder in settings designed to deal specifically with those problems, as well as in other practice areas such as corrections, schools, child welfare, and gerontology.

Prerequisite(s): SWK 601 (may be taken concurrently) or SWK 531